rens321
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:34 AM |
| There are 5 people on the train track. You are on a bridge with a fat man. A train approaches. THe fat man is big enough to stop the train. Would you push the fat man off the bridge, or let the train run over the 5 people on the train tracks? |
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Dagrunt12
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GenexLord
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:34 AM |
how can i push the fatman if the train cant push the fatman
its a flying jimmy | ot youngling |
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ShivyAU
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:35 AM |
| kill the fat bloke, probably hates his life anyway. |
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rens321
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:35 AM |
| Because you have a mega energy releasing weapon that can push things with great velocity |
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Kokuen
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:35 AM |
i don't think he'd move unless i slammed him
-Commander hairspray of OT- |
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:36 AM |
Shove the 4 non-obese people off the tracks and jump off with them Let fatman do his work |
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rens321
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:36 AM |
@supah you're on a bridge the 5 people are far away |
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:38 AM |
what if the "Fatman" was a nuclear bomb
Because, fatman was the bomb that dropped on Heroshima/Nagasaki
But in truth, likely the five people are being executed so |
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rens321
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:38 AM |
| Why kill the fatman? The 5 people on the tracks would at least witness you pushing him off. |
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Litemare
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:41 AM |
| how would a fat man stop an 8 thousand ton train going 90 mph? the only thing that's going to happen is that you're going to have another very messy death |
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rens321
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:42 AM |
Because it's hypothetical It's not to be taken literally |
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:43 AM |
| Let the train run over the 5 people. |
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rens321
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:44 AM |
| I know this is a pretty famous philosophy question |
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Litemare
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:44 AM |
"Because it's hypothetical It's not to be taken literally"
everything is super serious guy even if the train stops the instant the fat man hits the train it's not going to slow down fast enough to avoid hitting the people if they're within sight |
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Hearsay
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OTMoris
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:46 AM |
"how can i push the fatman if the train cant push the fatman"
oh oh THIS |
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rens321
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:47 AM |
IT'S HYPOTHETICAL have you ever not heard of hypothetical scenarios? They're not real and in some sort of other imaginary world where things believed impossible are possible. This is a morality question, not a physics and inertia question |
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Litemare
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:47 AM |
"IT'S HYPOTHETICAL have you ever not heard of hypothetical scenarios? They're not real and in some sort of other imaginary world where things believed impossible are possible. This is a morality question, not a physics and inertia question"
yes then no. super serious |
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rens321
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:49 AM |
"yes then no. super serious"
Sorry, can you reword that? |
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Litemare
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:53 AM |
"Sorry, can you reword that?"
certainly additionally absolutely not, very grave |
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| 18 Jun 2014 11:56 AM |
| See, the question is who would I kill? But if I let the train hit them, I wouldn't have killed them. The train would have. Besides, they're probably idiots anyways. Standing on the tracks and all. That fat man knows what's up. He goes on the bridge. |
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