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Smart solution. Like this, no one ever gets killed but we need an infinite number of people on the switches.
Until you get to that one person that would like to end mankind way down the line.
It just takes one.
It's curious how they're selected. During the nuclear age we've had nukes in the hands of fanatics who hated the enemy, who were able to comprehend the gravity of their responsibility enough that not once did a nuclear tipped weapon get launched in error or against orders... or at all.
We're closing on eighty years without an atomic war. Not a small accomplishment. It's one of the few things that gives me hope for humanity.
See? It just needs one asshole to end the world.
If we can travel faster than the trolley, we could adjust all switches with one person who continues to travel to the next junction before the trolley arrives!
Hell of a job, but yes 😆
At this point some might question why you didn't buy a nuke in order to stop the trolley
Horrible metaphor for life deep