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Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But then it isn’t a world ending desease, you just killed somebody

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  • Steve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The use of a time machine is implied in these situations

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    • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Kill the person who invented the trolley problem. It’s the only way to be sure

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  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you killed patient 0, then it wasn’t a world ending disease either.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The logic that nobody would ever die as long as nobody ever pulls falls through when you realize after 33 cycles you’re risking the entire human population on the whims of a stranger and that irrational actors will always exist.

    It becomes not if but when.

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• Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe a world ending disease is the cure…

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This guy is the perfect example of why we cannot trust somebody won’t pull the lever.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Youre right but for the wrong reason. Id pull it thinking it was goong one way and it would go the other.

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  • anzo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cure for what? That’s a fascist argument. I am not accusing you. Just wanted to inform. I was intellectualizing like that once: if all humans die, life on the planet would thrive, species that go extinct wouldn’t be an issue we would only be seeing it as a product of the evolution of more biodiversity for sure…

    Yet… A friend pointed out, that such disease is just a theorization and reality has shown that this kind of scenarios are lived in, for example, catastrophes. In those cases, the world ending event hits harder to the most vulnerable. Typically, the poorest fraction. Billionaire and other rich people will have resources, bunkers, time, and so on… They may even be saved. And this is actually their agenda in, for example, climate change denialism and inaction.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If the only people left alive were the cruelest, would they thrive? I know it seems unjust but we dont get upset that the dinosaurs one ruled the planet.

      Personally, I think peoplle are corruptable. People arent inherently anything but circumstance plays a much bigger role. Essentially the most vulnerable people are just unlucky. Given luck the right luck they could only mirror the elite, not change them.

      For the elite to see through the eyes of the homeless they would need to be made homeless and there is no other way.

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      • arendjr@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Saying that people are corruptible doesn’t imply they are corrupt. Thankfully we live finite lives and plenty of us can make it to the end before we corrupt ourselves.

        Given the right luck they could only mirror the elite, not change their structure.

        This is quite literally pretending the Age of Enlightenment never existed. We can change structures and have throughout history.

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