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Aella
@Aella_Girl
If you own a dog or cat: one button causes your pet to die of natural causes over the next week, and the other causes a random person in a country on the other side of the world to get fatally run over by a car. You choose:
  • pet die
    25.3%
  • stranger get run over
    41.8%
  • N/A/ have no pet
    32.9%
4,671 votesFinal results
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Ramón Alonso Jr 7/100 maps
@RamonAlonsoJr
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@Aella_Girl
to those people "pet" is a misnomer that's just an informal but very situated family member If put in some absurd malthusian cosmic demon scenario where you have to pick between something you neurologically love like a family member or a stranger the choice is perfectly human
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Chanel Pfahl 🇨🇦
@ChanLPfa
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@Aella_Girl
I’d be lying if I said I’d save the stranger. Would be interesting to see how much the poll results would shift if before choosing a button you saw a picture/description of the stranger.
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@yaycapitalism
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@Aella_Girl
Suppose the subject had to push a button Here's a question: does the survey utilitarianism vs aversion to personal loss, or does it measure a person's ability to be honest with themselves about what they'd really choose?
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