• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    23 days ago

    The last line of these is always what the poster wants to happen

    everything else is skewed rationale to make you think it is a funny

    it is, in reality, anti-intellectual propaganda

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      23 days ago

      I think most of these have just become self-satire and clever attempts to come up with increasingly convoluted ethical choices.

      It’s not anti-intellectualism, it’s anti-trolly-problem specifically.

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        23 days ago

        My favorite version is:

        A trolley is approaching a junction and you have the ability to leave the switch where it is, sending the trolley into an innocent person tied to the tracks, or pull the lever sending the trolley down the tracks to someone else that is now faced with the same trolley problem.