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  • The reality is this is an absurd proposition (absurd in the philosophical sense). Trollies have safety features and if you understand engineering, you understand that things are designed to fail safely.

    If something were to cause the trolley to hit anyone, that’s a freak accident caused by a casaced of decisions that were made before you had the option to pull the lever. No one would hold you accountable for your decision, and the reality is the choice you make doesn’t matter. Just go to therapy afterwards please.

    Explore more ridiculous trolley questions here.

    One more thing, another version of the trolley question is this:

    Suppose six people are in a coma. One person will recover without intervention. Five will die unless they all receive organ transplants from the person that would otherwise survive. Do you intervene, killing one person to saving save five, or standby, watching five die while one survives.





  • Rooskie91@discuss.onlinetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEU vs USA
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    22 days ago

    Haha yeah you guys sure did a good job at standing up to those brexit blokes!

    Edit: Forgot to mention the Germans and French throwing soup at paintings. Wherever will us yanks find such creativity.

    Or, we could stop believing this online bullshiteant to divide the movements and stop judging each other based on our worst examples.



  • That’s not true. It sounds like you’re confusing nicotine with caffeine. Nicotine is often credited with “taking the edge off” when in reality, that “edge” is a result of nicotine withdrawal.

    Caffeine blocks the receptors that react to a chemical the body releases when it’s tired. You’re right that it doesn’t give you more energy, but it does stop you from feeling by tired.

    Out of all the common legal drugs (nicotine, alcohol, THC) caffeine actually provides some of the best benefits with least intrusive drawbacks.