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trolley problem: - only 1 track - 1% of people are on track, samaritans racing to free them - 99% in trolley - lever derails trolley and it starts rolling away - undo lever can winch it back with falling probability as it rolls - roll can turn into tumble killing 3% occupants
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Trolley driver is trying to pass food along to the people in the cheap seats in the back, but people in the good sears upfront keep intercepting it and eating it, even though they have food
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People can get off and start walking on the tracks, and if enough do the stampede will kill the ones on the track. Most would only do that if enough others do so, so it could snowball anytime There is some sourdough bread on the trolley
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Idiot on the trolley is sulking very loudly because everybody is hostile to his proposal that they huff the lubricant that happens to be stored in the trolley maintenance kit, as a solution for everything
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The people on the track are shackled to it with locks that come on a dozen related varieties but the keys are missing Some samaritans are trying to design keys, others are picking one lock at a time laboriously
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