Question on human compassion.

[KJM 0]

if you crashed your car into the train to save the kid, how many passengers on the train do you think would die in the most inevitable derailment? And how do you decide which lives are more worth saving?

[peregrinerose 0]

I wouldn't crash the car.... I'd lay like hell on the horn though and hope the kid pays attention.

First, it's impossible to 'know' you are going to save the kid that way.

Second, it would be suicide to drive in front of the train and get hit. If I had time to park the car and get out then I probably would have time to not stop the car on the tracks and just shove the kid out of the way myself.

Third, how many people on the train get injured/killed? Is it worth sacrificing them for some kid who is either very stupid or has very stupid parents which is why he's on the tracks to begin with? I'd rather have a few less stupid genes in the pool and not trade him for a few innocents.

Fourth, no way the thing would be uninsured and outside of the garage if it was my car to begin with.

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[Shell666 0]

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I wouldn't crash the car.... I'd lay like hell on the horn though and hope the kid pays attention.

First, it's impossible to 'know' you are going to save the kid that way.

Second, it would be suicide to drive in front of the train and get hit. If I had time to park the car and get out then I probably would have time to not stop the car on the tracks and just shove the kid out of the way myself.

Third, how many people on the train get injured/killed? Is it worth sacrificing them for some kid who is either very stupid or has very stupid parents which is why he's on the tracks to begin with? I'd rather have a few less stupid genes in the pool and not trade him for a few innocents.

Fourth, no way the thing would be uninsured and outside of the garage if it was my car to begin with.

Sheesh ... don't go gettin' all logical in SC!



What she said. Some may say it's harsh but what she said.

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[Nightingale 0]

I'd probably lay on the horn too, but I wouldn't put the car on the tracks. I've seen what happens when car meets train. Last time it happened around here about five people on the train died.

The problem with this question is that any way you answer it, there's lives at risk.

[kallend 2,034]

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I'd probably lay on the horn too, but I wouldn't put the car on the tracks. I've seen what happens when car meets train. Last time it happened around here about five people on the train died.

The problem with this question is that any way you answer it, there's lives at risk.

No, the problem with the question goes deeper than that.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[nathaniel 0]

Do nothing because the kid isn't old enough to consent / sign a waiver. Tell em to wait till he's 18.

My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

[Skyrad 0]

As Kallend said. putting a car on the track wouldn't stop a train and as somone else pointed out what about the risk to the people on the train. I don't think its a well thought out question.

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[rehmwa 2]

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That, as Sundevil777 would say, is a very poor analogy.

It's a great analogy - look, think of the train as a dart, and the coin as a shuttlecock. Now, if you throw each out of a moving otter at 110 mph.....


I think that the people read the hypothetical and look at the aspect of the kid being real and the train as some inanimate object without further consequences of the "immediate gratification" question posed says a lot about the shallowness of how people think..... That, and bunnies are fuzzy

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[kallend 2,034]

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That, as Sundevil777 would say, is a very poor analogy.

It's a great analogy - look, think of the train as a dart, and the coin as a shuttlecock. Now, if you throw each out of a moving otter at 110 mph.....


I think that the people read the hypothetical and look at the aspect of the kid being real and the train as some inanimate object without further consequences of the "immediate gratification" question posed says a lot about the shallowness of how people think..... That, and bunnies are fuzzy

So - did you enjoy Nationals?

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.