2mo ago

Bad rules, everyone

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Alternative last frame: they’re all dead and hanging from trees.
- and there's a YouTuber filming them for klout
Wait, they were never tied to the tracks? Only rolled up on rope?
- yeah, they just chose to stay still cause they felt like dying
  
  So... if you choose to hit more people, you can make more of them happy?
Oh no, here comes a boat. Will it hit the group that it's heading for or will its pilot change course to hit one person instead?
- But what if it stops in port and has every piece individually swapped out?
  
  Does the port have an infinite amount of docks already occupied? Do they have room for one moor boat if everybody moves down one?
- Would you rather, hit six people with a boat and kill them, or flip over your boat, save them, but you die from drowning?
  
  Drown
There are other ways to complete the trolley problem without using a trolley
Boulders? Old refrigerators? Wild bear? Runaway car? A freight train? Industrial machinery?
Just use your imagination
- Tech bros killed public transit and now it’s the Cybertruck problem. If you know that autopilot automatically shuts off just before the collision and you’re going to take the blame anyhow, what do you do?
  It’s a trick problem, it just blows up and kills everyone.
  
  The only cybertruck fire I recall (I don't follow the vehicle closely at all) was the one with a load of pyrotechnics in Vegas, where the truck's battery didn't even ignite
  Have any actually exploded? I think they have pretty large batteries so any fire would be pretty catastrophic
  (I get that it was a joke, it just spurred this thought)
- Luckily Sisyphus can deal with the first one.
- But...what's a trolley problem...without the trolley?
  
  Maybe the Trolley pushes the boulder?
Funny enough

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