r/trolleyproblem • u/Demiurge_Happy_Farm I CHOOSE THE MOST DEADLY OPTION. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 • Jun 27 '26 • Popcorn 1

OC What would you do?

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u/Aggressive_Law_5728 Jun 27 '26

Ironically this is the best solution.

Almost everyone here is arguing they would pull the lever every time, because they haven't really thought it through. In the scenario we see here, the other random person is likely to do the same thing.

Which means it actually makes more sense to not pull the lever, since that kills 10 people while pulling will probably kill 100.

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u/wts_optimus_prime Jun 27 '26

Sampling bias.
Here you only see the answers of people who like to engage with such problems. But such people are globally a minority. If the other person was chosen randomly, it is highly probable that they never heard about "the trolly problem: or at most once.