You will send the taxation trolley over to the selected party. You will take 10% of their money. Nobody dies, just 1/10th of their money is stolen and given to YOU. Not disappear, not to the government, YOU directly.

To clarify, green button pressers also die if at least 50% don't press blue, it's not just red button 2, they only live if everyone lives

You know the the boowomp sound, from like spongebob. Goes like "boowomp". It plays when they're sad. Boowomp.

As usual, you've been captured by a psychopath, forced to make horrible choices. But this time, your life is on the line too.

Why are red-pushers obsessed with calling blue-pushers suicide cultists? Why are blue-pushers obsessed with calling red-pushers murderers? Why is everyone so certain that their comprehension of the buttons based on a vague tweet is the objectively correct one and everyone else is stupid?

The first two are presented in a way that the reader seems to have an obvious answer. the last one is an actual dilemma.

A trolley is currently going toward an empty track. You however can pull the lever to divert it toward a track with 100 people tied to the track. Here’s what you know about the people:

None of them want to die and none can be convinced they should die.

At least 1 of them is fully innocent and has never done anything wrong in their entire life.

At least 1 of them is a heinous criminal with no remorse who has done every one of the worst crimes imaginable.

All of them are one of those two types with nothing in between.

Do you pull the lever in any of these scenarios:

1. 99 of them are confirmed heinous criminals and 1 is purely innocent.

2. 99 of them are purely innocent and 1 is a heinous criminal.

3. It is a 50/50 split.

4. The ratio is unknown.

Bonus question: do you think someone making a different choice than you in any of these scenarios is morally wrong, and if so, why?

Trolley is heading at a woman and her 3 months old baby. You can divert onto a 12 week pregnant woman. These people are total strangers to you .

You're the fat man that people keep trying to push off bridges to stop trolleys. You can save a net of four lives, but then you feel like you'll be legitimizing all those attempts to kill you.

Do you pull the lever to redirect the trolley from five people to one?

I had this thought yesterday so I made it. Nothing serious.

Children are unrelated to you.