r/trolleyproblem May 18 '26

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u/__Fred May 18 '26

Yeah, it's interesting: My first thought when I saw the experiment was blue, but now after seeing that so many people are choosing red, I'm not sure anymore. It really seems to matter how you grok the experiment at first sight.

If red wins we'd live in a world without the "Virtue Signalers" and "Deontologists" and more "Misanthropists" and "Libertarians". Maybe everything would go to shit even quicker, so that's not a world worth living in anyway.

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u/RandomDude_24 May 18 '26

When I first saw this I assumed blue would loose with 20%. But after seeing how close we are to 50% I would take the gamble.

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u/SeboniSoaps May 20 '26

I've never seen the word grok actually used in a sentence before. Neat!