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[โ€“] Sentinian@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In theory if the chain never ends this might be the only trolley problem where nobody has to die as long as nobody interacts. (If I understand it correctly)

but if the chain never ends, you're basically guaranteed that one of the people holding the lever down the line is a monster and will deliberately decide to kill the people, so you're likely to do better by killing the one person now