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Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by fuyu on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @02:50AM (#31997610)
100 years is a long time for humanity to look into ways to counteract time travelling trolleys! Sure it _says_ the future trolley will kill 5 people, but if I were in that situation I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be so certain. In your "political" example: Do you want a guaranteed bad outcome now, or what we expect to be the same bad outcome later?
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Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by YurgenJurgensen on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @05:33AM (#31998652)
Maybe we have medical resurrection in 100 years, so killing people might not be so bad. Plus future humans get a perfectly preserved example of a 100 year old trolley out of the deal, which is presumably a valuable antique.
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