In that case, no, and you’re not responsible anymore. Those people working on switching out the trolley parts had every available opportunity to fully stop the trolley, more-so than you. You diverted it to save a life immediately, that crew maintaining this Trolley of Death are the real murderers.
What if the maintenance crew themselves didn't know that the trolley was going to hit the tied down person 1000 miles away?
I blame the trolley company's CEO and shareholders for allowing a random person to divert the trolley's path in the first place.
They were told that for every part they replaced, they were diverting another trolley down a 1000-mile track
They couldn't have replaced the trolley parts had you not sent it.
My favorite trolley experiment is still the dad presenting it to the little kid, who proceeded to think outside the box and moved the one person to the other track with the second. And then ran them both over.
The trolly might not have but your choice did.
Couldnt the person tied down escape by the time the trolley comes?
At the very least, if you throw the switch you then have a thousand miles to figure out a way to save them. Or to put the other person on the same track, depending on your style.
Trolley of Theseus!
Can someone please stop the maniac who keeps tying all these people to trollie tracks?
This implies that they're not doing this willingly.
The trolley problem becomes a lot more complex once you realize everyone on the tracks willfully volunteered to be there.
After a few miles down the tracks, I won't see or hear the trolley anymore, therefore i can not be certain it even exists anymore. It may have run over someone, it may have derailed, it may have exploded, it may have run out of fuel and stopped, a black hole might have opened up in its path and swallowed it whole.
The lack of object permanence solution to the trolly problem.
Problems like this aren't unsolved, it's just that these problems have different answers depending on the context.
Is it the same trolley that kills the man? Yes because repairing the trolley doesn't change it's name.
Is it the same trolley that kills the man? No because it is physically not the same trolley.
Humans divide their cells until the original cells are gone. Are they a different person?
Yes they are.
No they aren't.
Depends on what you're measuring or what problem you're trying to solve. But both perspectives are simultaneously true. Wait until you get to math and find out there's different lengths of infinity. It's all tools used to solve problems.
depending on the context
This is exactly why these trolley problems don't work. When we strip away all context and ask simplified questions the nuance disappears and the question becomes almost meaningless.
Easy task: Pull the lever, jump into car, rescue the man, far away. Then burn down the trolley and everyone involved in your misery.
If you take a thought experiment and replace all the thought with meaningless garbage, is it still a thought experiment?
How does one replace the trolley's trucks (wheels and axles) without stopping it over 1000 mi?
Carefully
Build an entire scaffolding around it, itself running on the same rail
So much work when all I want to do is run over people with a trolley.
Like the axe in John Dies at the End!
Hey, no spoilers!
Was the trolley build by NEWAG?
You're definitely not guilty.
Is this another Biden metaphor?
Elaborate?
In that people have been creating their own trolley problem memes to illustrate either how they think Biden is just as bad as Trump or that despite Biden being imperfect, he's still the ethical "flip of the switch".
I love the downvotes though on a simple question. It's ironically unencumbering to be projected onto without any context to base one's disagreement or anger.
