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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
It's more fun to push fat people under trains.
Exactly my point! Shouldn't the purpose be for us to doubt pushing the guy?

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Hey, maybe the hat could stop the tram!
only if it was a skip hat.

a train would definitely stop if you threw a skip in front of it.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Hey, maybe the hat could stop the tram!
No, but leaves on the line would though!

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Originally posted by belgianfreak
Well, that's it I'm afraid, but it really got me thinking. I don't think I could have pushed the guy off the bridge but my instinct would have been to switch the lines. As has been correctly pointed out, the two scenarios are essentially identical, so why did 75% of people asked agree to pushing the switch but only 25% say they'd push the guy? What make ...[text shortened]... oes this explain other real life choices people make and how they chose to carry them out?
I would have jumped off the bridge and then yelled at God when I got to heaven for putting me in a bind like that. I'd tell him, "hey, yo G...only one of us here can play god"

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Originally posted by belgianfreak
a question from a psychological study that facinated me. It's got 2 parts, but we'll get to part 2 later.

question: you realise that a runaway tram is going to hit & kill 5 people. You are next to a switch that will divert the course of a tram so that it will go a down different track and only hit one person.

There's no trick to this, or any othe ...[text shortened]... hange the tram's course and let 1 die?

I'll post part 2 after a few people have answered
Perhaps you could throw the switch when the train was half way passed and pick up the split. 😛

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interesting post !

nobody try to be a real hero here !

why not to save the fat man and the people on the tram, jumping and blocking the bridge .... in other words ... why not to sacrifice for the others ????

any comment ?

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at least Bruce Willys did it in Armagedon .... 😀

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Originally posted by Bowmann
They can't push back.
You try it with a fat sumo wrestler.

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Originally posted by drjegc
interesting post !

nobody try to be a real hero here !

why not to save the fat man and the people on the tram, jumping and blocking the bridge .... in other words ... why not to sacrifice for the others ????

any comment ?
Only fat people can be heroes, then?

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Well for the fat man could stop a tram couldn't five people stop the tram I would jump down to join them and help to make it six, six people must weight more then one fatso. I know it goes against the rules but I think I would try it. Also the fatso could help and stop the tram without his death. If the worst came to it I would kick him in the shin so he would stop it and die.

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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
You try it with a fat sumo wrestler.
At least one of your chosen words would appear redundant.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
At least one of your chosen words would appear redundant.
Much like your pretentious comments!

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Originally posted by belgianfreak
a question from a psychological study that facinated me. It's got 2 parts, but we'll get to part 2 later.

question: you realise that a runaway tram is going to hit & kill 5 people. You are next to a switch that will divert the course of a tram so that it will go a down different track and only hit one person.

There's no trick to this, or any othe ...[text shortened]... hange the tram's course and let 1 die?

I'll post part 2 after a few people have answered
umm, which group is bowmann in? The five, or alone.

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Originally posted by RookRAK
umm, which group is bowmann in? The five, or alone.
Bowmann is the fat man!

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