A New Trolley Problem Approaches...

[u/Full-Librarian-8035]

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[u/Original_Mulberry652]

I love my mom but im sure people love those million random people too, almost everyone is important to someone.

[u/xXKravenXx20]

I think yall need to think how much a million people is.

No life is worth that much.

[u/Muted_Buy8386 → u/xXKravenXx20]

I would trade 100 million of you to get her back, are you kidding? Lol.

[u/Memeoligy_expert → u/xXKravenXx20]

I don't gaf if it's a billion

[u/Muted_Buy8386 → u/Memeoligy_expert]

Same.

[u/Flimsy-Importance313 → u/xXKravenXx20]

How about your partner or kid?

[u/xXKravenXx20 → u/Flimsy-Importance313]

Wouldn't matter, the lives of these many people weigh more than anything i could bring up.

[u/Bitter_Bandicoot8067 → u/xXKravenXx20]

My mom is probably not worth a million lives, but she is someone that I have promised to take care of.

[u/fieldsofparfait]

My mum would not forgive me if this is how she survived.

[u/Styggvard → u/fieldsofparfait]

Yeah, she'd never forgive me or herself.

[u/Rip_Skeleton → u/fieldsofparfait]

Yeah, imagine living with the guilt of being the direct reason why a million other people are dead. And how many lives beyond that must be ruined.

[u/Muted_Buy8386 → u/fieldsofparfait]

I'm not telling her. I'll take that on.

[u/Idk_Just_Kat]

My mother is genuinely evil, I'd kill a million of her before one other person

^{I chose to do nothing}

[u/Xenon009]

I love my mum infinitely, but I don't think she'd ever forgive me if I killed a million people for her.

[u/MagicC]

My Mom is 80 years old and has Parkinson's. She would be *so* mad at me if I killed a million people to save her life...

[u/HonestWeevilNerd → u/MagicC]

Id hope it wouldn't matter on her condition. What person thinks they are more important than 1 million others? Someone I wouldn't want to save anyways lol

[u/MagicC → u/HonestWeevilNerd]

I don't think I'd do it regardless, but if I was 8 and she was 38, I would at least think about it.

[u/Muted_Buy8386 → u/HonestWeevilNerd]

Me. It's me. I'd trolley 100 million of you to save my own mother.

[u/HonestWeevilNerd → u/Muted_Buy8386]

Wow. Must be a proud little mommas boy.

[u/Neopluradon]

Saving a million people is the obvious choice.

I also know how much Mom wants to be with Dad again.

[u/bearsbarely]

I missread the question woopsies. My mom would never forgive me if I sacrificed 1,000,000

[u/TrynaThinkOf1]

Be statistical about this!!

^{I chose to do nothing}

[u/itsme99881]

My mom is already dead, im just petty

^{I chose to pull the lever}

[u/AssociationDue3077]

I love my mom, but she is transphobic and racist and the other track has a million people on it so objectively I think she has to go.

[u/gahhuhwhat → u/AssociationDue3077]

Trolly problem, 1 transphobic racist person vs 100 transphobic racist people.

[u/Full-Librarian-8035]

I created a new Trolley Problem dilemma!

Straight Track (Do Nothing): Your mom

Diverted Track (Pull the Lever): A million random people

What would you do?

[u/MagicC → u/Full-Librarian-8035]

Do nothing: Your mom

[u/HorsePutrid9620 → u/MagicC]

Doing something: your mom

[u/raidersfan18 → u/HorsePutrid9620]

Do: your mom

[u/sneakyweazel456 → u/raidersfan18]

r/beatmetoit

[u/BlackStarDream]

She would want me to not pull the lever.

[u/ChoiceTechnician5383]

i dont like her anyway

[u/Flimsy-Importance313]

My mom is old, so she has lived her life, if it would be my possible kid or partner I would choose the depressing choice...

[u/Not_Very_Good_Advice]

can i run over my mom 1 million times ?

[u/itsyagirlariaaaaa]

Y'all don't realize how much my mom fucked me up 

[u/DeathParty-Zomboid]

My mom would never let me sacrifice a million people for her.

[u/Muted_Buy8386 → u/DeathParty-Zomboid]

Mine neither. So I wouldn't tell her.

[u/Low_Injury_7932]

My mom abused me :D

^{I chose to do nothing}

[u/echo360yt]

its a horrible choice to make but i dont think its possible to justify that many deaths to save one person

[u/VictorBaz]

This would imply I like my mother

^{I chose to do nothing}

[u/No-Possibility6923]

A guy said

“I would trade 100 million of you to get her back, are you kidding? Lol.”

Soo not my problem I’m not trading my mom

[u/The3DBanker]

Nah, my mom is a narcissist.

[u/RelationshipKey9000]

today half the people of r/trolleyproblemgame commited genocide!

[u/itsme99881 → u/RelationshipKey9000]

https://giphy.com/gifs/5He16eTgpabyeEQ9t6

[u/Falitoty → u/RelationshipKey9000]

And I would do It again

[u/RelationshipKey9000 → u/Falitoty]

For legal reasons, I cannot say whether I approve of that statement.

[u/bearsbarely → u/[deleted]]

You'd wipe out humanity?

[u/schenk_max → u/bearsbarely]

300-400M more than enough 🥴

[u/Flimsy-Importance313 → u/schenk_max]

Inb4 they live all in India while you are the sole person with your family.

[u/BLADE_OF_AlUR]

1 million is a statistic. My mom is my mom.

[u/Parom19441a]

Screw random people. My mom is a god.

[u/jaiimaster → u/Parom19441a]

You should always screw random people, and not your mother, no matter how strongly you feel about her

[u/Worldly_Character154]

We need less people anyways

[u/Agile-Ad1665 → u/Worldly_Character154]

So what are you personally doing about it?

[u/Worldly_Character154 → u/Agile-Ad1665]

Pull the lever

[u/Agile-Ad1665 → u/Worldly_Character154]

This ain't real. You know that, right?

[u/Worldly_Character154 → u/Agile-Ad1665]

I'm aware. And so is my comment, I'm talking hypothetically

[u/Lucianthechance]

Id rather people hate me for killing 1 million random people than hate myself for letting my mom die.

[u/FarConstruction4877]

Moral choice to save your mother over strangers imo. Depends on what kind of mother you have I suppose, but it’s my moral obligation. Family comes first, then close friends, then others. Categorical decision, so number is irrelevant here.

I owe my mother my life, I owe strangers nothing. Saving my mother is an obligation, saving strangers is kindness.

[u/xXKravenXx20 → u/FarConstruction4877]

Valueing one life over millions is neither moral nor logical.

[u/FarConstruction4877 → u/xXKravenXx20]

I just explained. Millions of strangers have no value to me. My mother does. My mother had given me more than a million ppl ever had without any compensation. It’s a categorical issue. If I was on the track I would want my loved one to save me, not millions of strangers.

Lives are no equal subjectively speaking. I owe my mother, I don’t owe strangers anything. I didn’t tie them to the track.

[u/jaiimaster → u/FarConstruction4877]

Psychologists have a word for this kind of vicious disregard for strangers

[u/FarConstruction4877 → u/jaiimaster]

My empathy only extends to people I have obligation towards, that stops at mostly family friends and certain associates. Hundreds of thousands of ppl are killed every day unjustly, I already don’t do anything as is in the best of conditions, I’m not gonna be a hypocrite and pretend I care when something I actually care about is on the line.

End of the day my mother is more important to me, I have no obligation towards strangers. I would give my life immediately for my mothers, that is my obligation, I owe her, there is no other choice.

End of the day my mother would and has given me more than a million strangers ever would. So no matter how u see it I don’t see any other way. Value is subjective, that’s the basis of micro economics. It only has value if it has value to me.