I vote for fair distribution of suffering, instead of to just 100 people.
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Maalus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
100 people hands down. Infinite people means infinite lives removed, infinite experiences etc. The 100 people will never truly die either, so if minimizing death is the goal, that’s best. It also is the choice that will happen without your input and those are usually better morally than actively changing and sentencing other people to death by yourself.
abfarid@startrek.website 4 months ago
Maalus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why tho? Your choice is to condemn a few, versus kill more people than have died throughout all of history of humankind. 100 is a drop in a bucket compared to eternal genocide.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 4 months ago
You don’t suffer after you’re dead. Being reincarnated and killed infinite times is infinitely worse than being killed once. If each trolley kills at the same rate, the actual amount of created suffering should be comparable, but I’d argue that since the infinite people don’t revive, we can assume that the trolley is replacing their normal deaths. This means that the suffering they would experience from dying normally never happens and the infinite people option actually creates less suffering overall.
abfarid@startrek.website 4 months ago
It’s a communist thing. Fair distribution of wealth and suffering.
trolololol@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s a capitalist assumption to think people with less karma goes first.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 months ago
Plus, it’s assumed that the trolley will never stop. It’s easier to utilize its free energy if it’s running in a circle.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Minimizing death by replacing it with eternal torment is some evil genie shit.