The hard core decision thread

Started by Angela March 10th, 2009 7:48 AM
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Angela

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Okay, your at a train station, your dog/cat is on the tracks, along with a little boy, and the train is coming their way, and you can pull a handle in front off you, that will switch the rails so the train would hit an old man and the local bully and the local hot girl/boy.


Now what do you do, but here is a twist, if you do nothing they all die, because the train is on fire and has explosives, and the little boy is your brother.
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Her

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Crappy remake of your other train death thread, Angela.

I'd rather 'save' the life of the old man, bully and local hot boy (lol boy) because really, it's 3 lives versus one child and a dog. Sure, it's a young life and a defenseless animal (well technically they all are, but yeah), but this is assuming the hot boy is 20 and under, and the bully is around the same age. Besides, the old man is going to die anyway, but thats getting cynical.

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I'd save my brother (if he was actually worth saving) and the dog/cat, because, if you get questioned on your actions, you could just break down into tears and say; "I couldn't bare to have my brothers death on my hands, besides... I didn't even see the old man, bully and hot girl!"
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Do nothing, no blood is on my hands as I had no direct or indirect responsibility for the lives on either tracks.
Agreed.

I'm slightly confused, though... How does pulling the lever magically defuse and put out the train? Everyone would die regardless because of it. Also, how you phrased it, if you wanted your brother/the animal to die, you would need to do nothing and let the train continue into them, therefore also killing the other side. As it is now, it's either save 2, kill 3 or kill 5.

Also, presumably, you'd die too, because you're so close to the train.

edit I would also summon a wall of velociraptors to knock the train over, so it stops moving. The explosion will kill them, so we won't need to worry about them terrorizing the masses.
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Her

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And one more thing.

How the hell can one child, a dog, a old man, another kid and another hot kid all be on the tracks? If there some sort of suicide lane on the tracks or something?

Angela

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And one more thing.

How the hell can one child, a dog, a old man, another kid and another hot kid all be on the tracks? If there some sort of suicide lane on the tracks or something?

No, some practical joker pored a bottle of glue over it. *Hides glue bottle*
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