• SpaceScotsman@startrek.website
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    28 days ago

    looking at the junction points on that diagram only one side of the axle would change track if the switch was pulled resulting in a derailment so you could ignore the possibility of hitting the people in the middle thereby reducing this example to two parallel but unconnected trolley problems

    i choose to kill whoever calls them trolleys and not trams