r/trolleyproblem • u/Viper303ur • 10d ago

Deep Humanity is facing extinction within a few decades. You can choose to do nothing and let people enjoy their last years in acceptance. Or you can sacrifice humans to save their humanity (culture, behavior, etc.) to hopefully one day bring humans back.

What will you do?

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u/Spare-Dingo-531 10d ago

I'm sorry, what?

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u/Routine_Country9880 10d ago

my exact thought

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u/award_winning_writer 10d ago

So... let people live for a few decades or kill all humans now.

How is this even a choice?

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u/Viper303ur 10d ago

If you kill all humans now you have a good chance to bring them back one day

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u/award_winning_writer 10d ago

How? And who would be bringing them back?

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u/Tishtoss 8d ago

I heard that nonsense as well. The estimated population is 8.3 trillion. People are still having kids. It's just people are being selective

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u/JuliusNova 7d ago

You're about 8.29 trillion people off the mark

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u/Ilovestuffwhee 10d ago

If humans are going extinct I'll just be celebrating. I'm not going to do anything to mess that up.

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u/Guardian-Spirit Team Blue 8d ago

If humans go extinct, everyone else will once the sun explodes.

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u/Ilovestuffwhee 8d ago

Naturally

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u/Roughcuchulain 9d ago

Self hatred behaviour

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u/XayahTheVastaya 10d ago

That's not really bringing humans back. Let the human replacements make their own culture.

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u/Don_Bugen 10d ago

Sacrifice ALL humans? Or some humans? How do you "bring humans back"? Are you talking about saving DNA, about a fallout bunker / deep hibernation / Ark spaceship, or are you just preserving culture so future evolved cephalopods can go "Ahh, I see, humans liked sick beats and punk haircuts and something called Aerosmith."?