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traceexcalibur INTRODUCING: THE PRISONER'S TROLLEY PROBLEMMA A trolley full of your loved ones is heading down the tracks and will hit another loved one. If you redirect it, it will hit three strangers, but all of your loved ones will be fine. However, there is another person on the other side of the tracks facing the same problem. If you both choose to redirect the trolleys, they will crash in the middle, killing almost everyone. The least amount of people will die if you do nothing and allow a loved one to die, the best-case scenario for you will occur if you pull your lever and the other person does not pull theirs, and the worst-case scenario will occur if you both pull your levers. What do you do??? argumate good loro uncertainkitten Philosophy should be banned.

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there is no trolley. they were all killed off by the automobile industrial complex. the tracks are now unruley and wild, the people once tied to them killed in crosswalks by giant trucks and SUVs. but sometimes you come pull the lever to reminisce on simpler times. 3 *
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Alright, I figured out what's off about this.

Technically, it's not exactly a prisoner's dilemma, because in a true prisoner's dilemma, your individual outcome will always be improved by you pulling the lever, despite the both-pull outcome being worse than the none-pull outcome.

But here, if you define your outcome by how many of your loved ones die, ignoring the strangers, not pulling the lever will always turn out the same for you, and, given that pulling the lever can either make things a little better or a lot worse, there's little incentive to pull it.

So I decided to rebalance the situation a little and make it a true dilemma.

Now, in place of the strangers, instead, your opponent will kill more of your loved ones in the event they pull the lever to save theirs. A little tougher a choice now, huh?

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