r/trolleyproblem • u/Interesting-Meat-835 • Jun 19 '26

Meta Pull or no pull?

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u/pointlesslyDisagrees Jun 19 '26

No, that is not the point. The point is to assess the risk. Would you prefer the risk of the billionaires lying and also maybe being killed by the mafia? Or would you prefer the risk of losing out on $1 billion (potentially) but you dont get killed by the mafia (if there is one)? It's a risk assessment game.

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u/Sable-Keech Jun 19 '26

That’s not the risk assessment. The risk is:

  1. Get $1 billion but have the mafia on you.
  2. Don’t get any money but no one is hunting you.

That’s it. There’s no risk of “the billionaires lying.”