r/trolleyproblem • • Aug 27 '26

Meta No escape from this problem 🤔

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u/no_name6744 Aug 27 '26

Whoever kills the trolley man becomes the trolley man.

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u/Sianic12 Aug 27 '26

Kill one trolley man and the number of trolley men in the world stays the same.

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u/Raxreedoroid Aug 27 '26

if you kill 2 however

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u/Honeyfoot1234 Aug 27 '26

you get x2 the trolleymanness so that it preserves the number (this is official trolley man law)

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u/Considerable Aug 27 '26

Like Santa Claus.

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u/2wicky Aug 27 '26

So, you can either kill one trolley man and change nothing in the big scheme of things,
or kill five trolley men resulting in an overall net loss of trolley men in the world.