In that case, no, and you’re not responsible anymore. Those people working on switching out the trolley parts had every available opportunity to fully stop the trolley, more-so than you. You diverted it to save a life immediately, that crew maintaining this Trolley of Death are the real murderers.
What if the maintenance crew themselves didn’t know that the trolley was going to hit the tied down person 1000 miles away?
I blame the trolley company’s CEO and shareholders for allowing a random person to divert the trolley’s path in the first place.
Well it’s like my grandmother always used to say: “Capitalism is like a death trolley barrelling down 1000 miles of track towards you”
They couldn’t have replaced the trolley parts had you not sent it.
My favorite trolley experiment is still the dad presenting it to the little kid, who proceeded to think outside the box and moved the one person to the other track with the second. And then ran them both over.
At that point you pretty much got a whole day to go and rescue the guy, assuming trolley is traveling around 40-50mph
Bold of you to assume there’s a highway connection between you and the distant victim.
For the sake of the argument, the train takes the same tracks as the trolley and the trolley service otherwise has the same budget as the US DOD.
The trolly might not have but your choice did.
Couldnt the person tied down escape by the time the trolley comes?
