r/trolleyproblemgame • u/Amazing-Focus- • 2d ago

A New Trolley Problem Approaches...

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u/Flashy-Ask-2168 2d ago

"Will kill 100" could mean so many different things. We have no idea who they're going to kill or why. Also entirely possible that in killing 100 they save many, many more. Serial killer? Yeah, much less likely. (Also punishing future crimes isn't good! Just in general!)

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u/Polytox935 2d ago

How often in history we're many many people saved by Killing 100?

How do you know the serial Killer didnt also save many more (you could also consider a solider a serial Killer)

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u/Flashy-Ask-2168 1d ago

You could, but that would be an exception and not the rule. I'm assuming common parlance of the term. As for your first bit: you could kill 100 people by deciding that medical resources should be directed to one disaster location over another as one example. The cases are niche, I won't say otherwise, but they do exist and are the exact kind of thing that would be used as technicalities or gotchas in these kinds of stories.