Everyone overlooking the rigorous maintenance required on the trolley. There will need to be several seamless swap outs each day with cleaning and engineering crews to keep the trolley, tracks, and grounds around running in a fulfilling order. And probably some ovens.
We are overlooking it, because it isn’t part of the hypothetical.
Otherwise we would also be discussing the logistics of tying infinite people to the train tracks, or the regeneration speed of human bodies.
It is either finite suffering for infinite people, or infinite suffering for finite people. Which implies the train to keep working for infinity.
“We”? Who’s “we”?
All the other “experts” that failed to realise either option cannot occur indefinitely without a good limb clean out every now and then?
You can imply what you like, but the meme diagram is very clear and should be taken light-heartedly very seriously. Especially since it’s the Trolley Problem scenario.
I pull the switch when the trolley is straddling the switching point, thus safely derailing the vehicle so it doesn’t kill anyone.
One musta assume 100 reincarnating trolley people happy
I think ethically, you have to let 1 + 1 + 1… die.
To let the same hundred people be tortured for eternity is basically hell.
No. Reincarnation means they never really experience the consequence of death, so the latter is equivalent to no punishment at all. The more important consideration for both is how they exist between getting run over.
This assumes the amount of excruciating pain and horror of being run over by a trolley before death is zero, and while I haven’t been run over by a trolley personally, I’d have to imagine it’s not fun.
Given it’s infinity, an infinite amount of anything just becomes a mundane day to day thing.
Isn’t the main argument of Christianity that the second option was better than the first?
