If 33 people choose to double it, the entire world’s population will be laying on that track, and there’ll be nobody to pull the lever. In that case, assuming escape is impossible, we’ll have ended the human race.
I say, let’s do it.
What about the humans on the track that were avoided?
There’s simply not enough people to fulfill the obligation without them - they’ll have to be recycled onto the next track, sorry!
No. The human population would completly stand at levers, leaving nobody to be kill
This would probably still kill most of the species, so I’ll take it.
the human problem
Hasn’t anyone come up with a fix for that yet? No?
Perhaps it’s finally time to unveil my… PRELIMINARY SOLUTION! 🧐
The human population is less than 9 nibbles.
This is actually a really interesting one! It questions your faith in humanity. All everyone has to do is not pull the lever. If the remaining population of humanity is on the 33rd switch, then just 33 randomly selected people all have to not choose to kill anyone. But can you trust such a huge decision to a stranger? Will the person further down the tract trust them or kill more people to safeguard humanity?
Personally, I think one life is worth sparing humanity this risk of annihilation. I could live in a world where my life might be randomly sacrificed to safeguard humanity if it only happens once.
Tragedy of the commons
