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Trolley Problem Quest

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[x] Pull the Shiny Lever

For the record, I don't hold a grudge against the insurance agent. Hell, I agree with them. If we wanted to save our car, we totally could have. This is just about satisfying that all consuming urge to touch something shiny.
 
I feel like I was supposes to follow a certain line of reasoning, but--- Ooh, shiny!

[x] Pull the Shiny Lever
 
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The 9th Trolley
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    • You pulled the shiny lever, murdering 1 person.

    You know, if you really wanted to blame something for your denied insurance claim, a better target probably would have been to run over the concept of capitalism itself. Ah well; the lever was really shiny, and that no doubt makes up for the cold-blooded murder.

    People Murdered: 15
    People Let Die: 11
    Funerals Disrupted: 1
    Families Reunited: 1
    Cars Totaled: 1
    Shiny Levers Pulled: 1
    Misattributed Blame for Capitalism: 1


    There is a runaway trolley barreling down the street. Currently, it's poised to kill every cancer patient in the world in the midst of celebrating the discovery of a cure. You are standing next to a lever that, if pulled, would redirect the trolley towards a package containing the only cure to cancer and information on how to make more, destroying it beyond recovery. However, due to your lever privileges being revoked from pulling the lever last turn, you cannot pull the lever.

    Do you pull the lever?

    [ ] Pull the Lever

    [ ] Don't Pull the Lever
     
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    • How do I pull the lever if I cannot pull the lever? :thonk:

    [X] Pull the Lever

    This lever is odd-numbered, ergo, I pull it.
     
    We will probably get arrested or something and have to control trolleys as prison labor from now on.
     
    chellewalker said:
    Currently, it's poised to kill every cancer patient in the world in the midst of celebrating the discovery of a cure.
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    I commend the efforts of city authorities. It couldn't have been that simple to organize a world-wide travel tour to have all cancer patients celebrate the monumental occasion on the trolley tracks, then have a runaway trolley accident.

    This actually involves a moral conundrum worth thinking about.

    On one hand, it's no small feat to be said to have killed more people than cancer, and given the existence of the cure, cancer will be taken out of the running leaving our record to stand.
    On the other, I am being told I am not allowed to do something.

    [x] Don't Pull the Lever
    [x] Pull the Lever

    I am sure there is something for us in allying ourselves with Big Pharma. We could use a new car.
     
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    Nevill said:
    I commend the efforts of city authorities. It couldn't have been that simple to organize a world-wide travel tour to have all cancer patients celebrate the monumental occasion on the trolley tracks, then have a runaway trolley accident.
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    On that note, how the hell is the trolley getting the strength to smash through them all? Approximately 18 million people in the world have cancer. The sheer amount of ablative meat should stop the trolley before it gets through the first million. :whistle:
     
    [X] Pull the Lever

    it's always possible to rediscover the cure after all
     
    [X] Push the button that is labeled 'Multi-Track Drift' located next to the lever.
     
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    [x] Quickly disassemble current track and rebuild it towards to parade of pharma executives taking credit for the work of scientists

    This quest seems fun
     
    [x] Don't Pull the Lever

    Rules are rules. And hey, technically, we're getting rid of cancer, just through more lethal means. And look it at this way, with all those smushed meat patties, nobody will go hungry for a good long time.
     
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    [X] Don't Pull the Lever

    More people are going to get cancer so we save more people by not pulling. Also we get a better high score if we don't pull cause deaths from cancer afterwards won't count towards our record.
     
    [X] Don't Pull the Lever

    Either every cancer patient in the entire world decided to go to Trolley Town to celebrate, or this runaway trolley is crossing international borders to actively hunt down people with cancer. If it's the latter, perhaps this will finally be the disaster that brings international attention to this runaway trolley problem, thus saving even more lives than curing cancer would. I mean, cancer only kills people with cancer! This dang trolley could be gunning for anyone next!
     
    [X] Pull the Lever

    What's the worst they can do, sic a trolley on us for violating the law? We could just pull the lever again in that case!
     
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