Morals or love?

[Allanbrito]

Picture this. You are in a trip with the person you most love in this wolrd. You are walking close to a train line, suddenly the person you most love gets stuck in the rails. The train is coming all speed and it's full of people. Haundreds of people! You have a lever right in front of you. This lever will change the direction of the train but it will kill the haundreds of people inside the train taking them to a dead end where the rails never got finished, but if you don't pull it the haundred people live but you let your loved one die. You have no time to take that person out of the train and the train does not have enough time to stop.
Who will you choose?

[Rochrok]

I wouldn't hesitate to kill every last person on that train to save the one person I love. I don't know those people, sucks to be them and their loved ones.

[J.Lovelace]

This is a perfect way to die together.
hugs them
See you on the other side, hon.

But you never specified how the beloved one got stuck. If it's just a leg then I think it's better to sacrifice just that one leg. And then give the bae the best bionic leg there is.

[Jenny-Toons]

My first choice -- Because I love this person so much, I find a way to save both.

Let's think this through -- What kind of train is this and what kind of tracks are these?

Bullet trains wouldn't give me that kind of access to a lever (not without guards, and even then, that's time wasted to save someone). L trains (like in a subway) are easy to get out of and you can step to the side on a ledge (at least you can with Chicago L trains). I can only assume this is a stream train or a freight train. The former is a bit faster, so I've got some worries, but the latter is generally slower.

Now let's think about the tracks -- do they easily snag clothes? Are they nailed to the ground or have an opening under it?

If we're talking tracks that can easily snag clothes, we're ripping the clothes off to save my love one. Plain and simple.

If we're talking about tracks that snagged a leg or whatever, specially a wooden board, I'm breaking the wood. If it's iron but my loved one can fall through to an underground level, I'll push them through and then pull them out. Otherwise, guess that's one broken ankle.

This isn't morals playing, this is just how much I love that person.

I won't let my loved one see me kill hundreds of people, thus traumatizing them and possibly losing their love nor will I put that type of guilt on their shoulders. And I am not putting hundreds of strangers I don't know before the person I love the most in the world, thus betraying my own heart and feelings.

Also, unless this is a bullet train or a durable train, everyone dies anyway if I don't save my loved one. Be it body or object, the moment something derails a train, it's game over. So then I would be both traumatized that I betrayed my loved one for nothing.

[Alex9Wolf9]

I would take out my hero suit and stop the train with my heroic superstrength.
Kidding.
Knowing my luck, I would be the one stuck in the rails...
So I would have to think if my loved one would save me, because if not- that would change a lot for me. But if I won't get to know that, I would kill the people, get my clumsy loved one out of there and run.

[ChanYE]

I had a very very hard time reading this.

And to answer your question id save my loved one.

[NickRowler]

Honestly I hate these moral questions. I just find them dumb.

If I was in this position, I would try to position my love one in a way so that only the stuck limb gets crushed/severed. Yes they lose a limb but it saves the most people.

[Jenny-Toons]

Honestly I hate these moral questions. I just find them dumb.

I gotta agree. Like it's basically forcing you to be a monster, and make you question who you are as a person. That's why I love getting a kick at finding a loophole through them and saving as many people as I can.

Like the parachute test: You have only two bags but three people (including you). Who do you save?

Easy -- Two people can be strapped to one (one person strapped to the other) and the other person takes the 2nd bag.

[NickRowler]

This also does not take in account that train levers are not easy to move and some are locked.

But then you hear them say "Well in this scenario it's not locked and it is easy to use." Yeah, this is why I hate these.

[Jenny-Toons]

This is actually one of the tracks I mentioned! OoO

It's wooden/iron and it's flat to the ground. You could easily get out of this sorta of track.

Foot snagged and makes them trip? Yank them into the middle (because there is a middle section between a train going to the left and another going to the right).

Clothes snagged? Rip it and get away.

There would be no need to choose.

[Alex9Wolf9]

I think you take this way too seriously. The question was simply if you WOULD kill people for your loved one. But in those situations I think most of us would just stay petrified and panicked not knowing what to do…

[Jenny-Toons]

But that's part of the thing tho -- the question also said what happens if you don't, so there's that emotional implication to it.

Most of us would choose our loved ones. I know I would. But questions like these are meant to like show who you are "as a person" or whatever and don't take the fear aspect into account.

[Alex9Wolf9]

I get it. But the creator of this topic just wants to watch the world burn *shrugs

[Jenny-Toons]

Hehehe, can't argue with that XD

[Allanbrito]

Muahahahahaahahaha!!!!!! Burn world!!!! Burn in chaos!!!!! Haha just kidding....

[dawgofdawgness]

I’d be so overwhelmed with the decision that I would either run away or in front of the train.

[Allanbrito]

Jenny-Toons got one of the most interesting answers to this question. Many people choose the loved one, almost everyone I would say, but still there is a few people who tryes for a third option, even when it was never offered a third option. This is called to think off limits, breaking the line and going outside the problem. Congratulation, you have given the best answer until now!
And also I had fun watching you suffer, hahahahaha.

[Alex9Wolf9]

But I have also offered a third solution saving everyone with my super powers
*slowly backs off in my cave

[Merle]

It´s funny, I always used to think theese Questions were so useless...because there would always be a way around it.
Until One day I had to decide between my family and my baby sister. And there was no way out, I was 16, i was powerless but at the same time, I had to make the decision. I think that day, a part of me died...

Anyways, I think if I had have to choose between my sister and 100 strangers, I would kill the strangers. Because in that moment, you don´t think about their lives, of their loved ones, or anything. You just think about what you love the most. We are egoistical creatures.

[zuggarts]

Referencing that comment about snagging them to the middle--I know this is just a thought experiment, but I would be more that can be a pretty brutal way to die. There was a story about some guy who was trying to show off to his friends by lying under the train as it passed over him--hooks on the bottom of his train got caught onto his jaw and well... that was the end of that.

As for the question, I probably wouldn't save my loved one thinking about it atm. In the heat of the moment I might save them because my emotions would be pretty frazzled, but to put myself in their shoes--I wouldn't want to live knowing that my life was saved at the direct expense of many others. To the best of my knowledge, the few loved ones I have would all rather die than live having others die for them, and I would want to spare them from a miserable life.

Now, if I could kill all those people without my loved one knowing about It, I would probably just save my loved one lol