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 really not sure about that last paragraph of the premise shot. I think the top is finite suffering for finite deaths but infinite individuals and then the bottom is finite suffering for infinite deaths of finite individuals. Honestly it sorta seems like the deaths are the suffering or at least part and parsel with it so I think it finite suffering/death for infinite individuals or infinite suffering/death for finite individuals.
Hmm, why are people so bad at teaching calc 2?
This isn’t even an isolated thing, I was a physics math double major and I’ve got into discussions with friends, and the overwhelming consensus was that calc 2 was the worst. Possibly because it’s where sequences and series show up, whereas calc 3 is just calc 1 but in more dimensions.
You can add me to the list of people that had a whole ass problem with calc 2. In addition to what you mentioned, my professor was the kind of guy who looked down on you if you didn’t know as much math as him and he had his doctorate in math. He laughed at people asking questions. His office hours was just him asking if you were too stupid to do math.
I don’t know where he is now but I sure hope he’s stepping on a LEGO brick every morning when he gets out of bed.
And also, why are so many people traumatized by calc 2 and not by ordinary differential equations and complex analysis?
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.
Stockholm syndrome is deeply unscientific. Can we stop perpetuating this drivel?
