This is the second of fourteen trolley problem memes I saved a decade ago. There’s another batch down the line from a month or so after that.
Yes you are obligated.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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Also to kill the patent owners
Or, are you in fact obligated to lead a popular revolt, burn the corporate headquarters down, and assassinate the CEO so that nobody else’s wife gets run over by trolleys? Then take over the trolley system and turn it into scalable public transit funded by the taxes of billionaires.
Think big
lead a popular revolt
"Guys, we need to band together and do a popular revolution to save my wife!"
"Fuck you, I'm not sticking my neck out just because you lost the Omelas Lottery"
"Well, then I'm going in solo"
"You'll only make things worse!"
"we need to put together a committee so we can write a tweet that condemns, blasts, and slams, and then we vote to give more money to the private company for security because someone keeps blowing up their level fortresses."
But in the short term, I suggest breaking in asap
Taxes implies they're still alive use pillaged loot instead
Most of the money is virtual, and vanishes with their shitty companies. They buy mansions with bank loans that are based on the imaginary collateral and some sort of assumption the billionaires will pay them back someday.
I’m pretty sure that’s what’s really keeping the system in place.
Money has always been fake pure abstraction the difference between a coin and a poker chip is how cool it is
Nah, I'm just finding a log and derailing the trolley.
Might set it on fire too.
I was thinking that too. Would you derail the trolly if was faster than paying the 200$ you don't have
I would derail the trolley if someone else had to pay money they didn't have.
And set it on fire too.
Break in, pull the lever, light the building on fire, derail the trolley
Okay we don't need to be doing violence against innocent trains here
I'm assuming here that if the lever is privatized, the only occupants of the train are exceedingly wealthy. It's a shame for the train, but seems a worthy sacrifice.
Okay guilty trains can be destroyed it will be mourned I'm so upset right now how could a train go so bad
There are no bad trains, only bad passengers.
Is it worth killing a train to kill the passengers then the ends don't justify the means can't we just use nerve gas or shoot them up or something or pull them out bodily and take them apart at a hospital and donate all their organs without anesthetic and exterminate their lines without hurting any innocent little trolleys
Censored guns? Haven't seen that before.
Ha the obligation to steal thought experiment. Usually it's with medicine and a sick wife. It's really funny somone made it into a trolley problem
You are, in fact, also morally obliged to find where the owner of the company lives and to tie THEM to some tracks. No lever required.
Ooh I actually like this one. Yeah fuck em, break in.
Ahh the Heinz dilemma!! Nothing to do with ketchup, but used in Kholbergs Stages of Moral Development or something like that. Except it was a medicine that could cure your sick wife.
Breaking in and taking anyone out who tries to stop me