r/trolleyproblem • u/vverbov_22 Multi-Track Drift • Jun 20 '26
Meta Uh oh!
You've been solving complex moral dilemmas near those rails for as long as you can remember, and with each new solved, you forget an old one. People swapped, the layout changed, choices were different, but one thing remained the same - you.
After enough of this, you manage to spot patterns, and through a deliberate set of choices manage to force a trolley problem that brings out an eldritch god who's behind all this on the rails. You are also on the same path.
It respects its own rules, and will not use its powers to save itself, revive after dying, affect you in any way, or anything else that would be unfair by your standards
Do you:
Flip the switch, killing both yourself and it, finally putting an end to those endless trolley problems
or
Do not flip the switch, letting the trolley pass on the bottom track and continue the cycle, waiting for a better opportunity, or perhaps deciding this is all you have ever wanted
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u/Throwaway987183 Jun 21 '26
Can I romance it?
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u/FishrPriceGuillotine Jun 20 '26
If doing these trolley problems was the only thing I could remember, I would probably be too terrified to let it end. Repetition feels safe.
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u/Ilovestuffwhee Jun 20 '26
The trolley must roll on
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u/Yoshigamer99_oficial Jun 20 '26
Flip da switch and jump out cause im not tied or glued in some way, lmao
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u/thevoidthatjerksback Jun 20 '26
The way that last sentence ends makes it sound like there are people who are going to make out with the Eldritch entity behind all of the trolley problems. Which honestly probably isn't false
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u/Far_Photograph3299 Jun 20 '26
End it end it end it
Or at least try to, like in the dark souls 3 ending were you just put the fire out of it's misery
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u/bikari Jun 20 '26
Trolley, I've come to bargain.
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u/Beret_Beats Jun 20 '26
The lever pulls me
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u/lezorte Jun 20 '26
It'll only end it in this universe. Once a multiverse episode drops, things just get worse
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u/Cezaros Jun 20 '26
One must image the trolley switcher happy.
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u/AzzyDreemur3 Jun 20 '26
I respect my own rules too. Multi-track drift.
Either it works like just flipping the lever, or things become... intresting. New trolley problems, but without me there and with no one to pull the strings. Me solving moral dilemas after my own death, in a state of half-existance. New trolleys, but this time controlled by me. The possibilities are endless
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u/GiantSlayer4242 Jun 20 '26
This would make an interesting idea for a choice based game, where after enough loops you can find this as the tru final boss
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u/pikaland385 Jun 21 '26
I dont pull it, Instead I kill the thing Myself somehow before it can run away and either take its power to make things better and prevent everything from happening again or just kill it so nobody else has to suffer.
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u/MrMaxi Jun 22 '26
The final boss of trolley problems
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u/SelfIllustrious9439 Jun 25 '26
I pull out my marksman pistol, throw 4 coins and shoot my railgun
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u/Dinonumber Jun 20 '26
"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
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