Via my BFF, ChatGPT:
The trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics. A runaway trolley is heading down the tracks toward five people who will be killed if it continues. You are standing by a lever that can divert the trolley onto another track—but on that track, one person will be killed.
The dilemma:
Pull the lever → Save five lives, but actively cause one death.
Do nothing → Avoid direct action, but five people die.
Ummmm.....HOW is this a dilemma? As in, obviously if I save the five lives sure that's one person dead but now there's FIVE people with literally undying gratitude for me; I doubt I'll ever hafta pay at another restaurant again. If you only save the one person then you hafta hope that one person's not an ungrateful dickhead or, worse, poor, whereas five people increase the odds one of 'em will be rich, so....what's the dilemma again?
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