Chapter 1621: Chapter 1621: The Trolley Problem
(Modify later) After entrusting the issue of order in the mall to Scarred Glasses, Xu Huo also entered “Shelter No. 101” to sleep.
This time, he still entered the same city he dreamed of last time, but he was at an old train station.
The ticket seller handed him a paper ticket.
Coming out from the line of people buying tickets, he found the corresponding boarding gate according to the information on the ticket and boarded the train that didn’t even have windows sealed.
Half an hour later, the train started with a total of 126 people in the five carriages, including the ticket seller and the driver.
“Would you like to try some local specialties, sir?” The ticket seller came over with a small cart and gave him some jerky and preserved fruits. “These are all free gifts, sir. If you find them tasty, please come again.”
The ticket seller kindly handed out free snacks to everyone on the train, and even when children running around accidentally knocked things over, she kept smiling without any displeasure.
The passengers on the train were also smiling, chatting together whether they knew each other or not, courteous and friendly.
Even mixed with children’s laughter, the entire train was not noisy but rather filled with a peculiar happiness.
The incident occurred at the next station when ten men who looked like thugs boarded the train, holding photos and searching for someone.
In the dream, Xu Huo couldn’t freely change his appearance, so he picked up the book of the female passenger next to him and walked forward, avoiding the crowd, reaching the connection between carriages, and climbed onto the train’s roof by stepping on the railings around.
The thugs searching from both sides found nothing, and someone suggested that they hadn’t checked the roof yet.
Xu Huo jumped to the front of the train, climbed through the window into the driver’s cabin, calmed the frightened driver, and said, “Let me hide here for a moment, I’ll go out later.”
The driver nodded frantically, but soon he panicked and said, “Why are there people on the tracks!”
Xu Huo turned around and immediately saw five people lying side by side on the train tracks. With the driver’s shout “There are also people on the switch track,” he looked to the left, where there was also a person lying on the diverging track.
These people were tied to the tracks, desperately watching the fast-approaching train, crying out loudly or calling for help.
The driver shouted, pressing down on the train’s control lever: “What to do, what to do? The switch is coming up, and the train can’t stop!”
The train couldn’t stop, and on the two tracks ahead, people were tied up — five on one side, one on the other — this seemed like a classic moral dilemma.
The button to control the track switch was close at hand, and the driver, sweating profusely, asked him, “Who to save?”
The original route of the train was the track with the five people, so Xu Huo didn’t press the button, letting the train run over the five people. After trampling the first two, the train derailed out of control, killing or injuring most of the passengers.
This was clearly not the correct answer, because in the next second, Xu Huo, who also died in the train crash, returned to the ticket booth.
Holding the same ticket, he returned to the previous train. After a joyful ride, the thugs boarded again, and he hid in the driver’s cab. This time, he didn’t make a choice but let the driver choose for himself.
However, the fragile driver couldn’t bear the immense pressure and jumped off the train, while the thugs behind rushed in and damaged the control lever. Once again, the train ran over the group of five, and then the train overturned.
Xu Huo returned to the ticket booth again.
Same ticket, same train, he stood once again in the driver’s cab.
Two experiments showed that whether to switch the train route or not had to be decided by him
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After entrusting the issue of order in the mall to Scarred Glasses, Xu Huo also entered “Shelter No. 101” to sleep.
This time, he still entered the same city he dreamed of last time, but he was at an old train station.
The ticket seller handed him a paper ticket.
Coming out from the line of people buying tickets, he found the corresponding boarding gate according to the information on the ticket and boarded the train that didn’t even have windows sealed.
Half an hour later, the train started with a total of 126 people in the five carriages, including the ticket seller and the driver.
“Would you like to try some local specialties, sir?” The ticket seller came over with a small cart and gave him some jerky and preserved fruits. “These are all free gifts, sir. If you find them tasty, please come again.”
The ticket seller kindly handed out free snacks to everyone on the train, and even when children running around accidentally knocked things over, she kept smiling without any displeasure.
The passengers on the train were also smiling, chatting together whether they knew each other or not, courteous and friendly.
Even mixed with children’s laughter, the entire train was not noisy but rather filled with a peculiar happiness.
The incident occurred at the next station when ten men who looked like thugs boarded the train, holding photos and searching for someone.
In the dream, Xu Huo couldn’t freely change his appearance, so he picked up the book of the female passenger next to him and walked forward, avoiding the crowd, reaching the connection between carriages, and climbed onto the train’s roof by stepping on the railings around.
The thugs searching from both sides found nothing, and someone suggested that they hadn’t checked the roof yet.
Xu Huo jumped to the front of the train, climbed through the window into the driver’s cabin, calmed the frightened driver, and said, “Let me hide here for a moment, I’ll go out later.”
The driver nodded frantically, but soon he panicked and said, “Why are there people on the tracks!”
Xu Huo turned around and immediately saw five people lying side by side on the train tracks. With the driver’s shout “There are also people on the switch track,” he looked to the left, where there was also a person lying on the diverging track.
These people were tied to the tracks, desperately watching the fast-approaching train, crying out loudly or calling for help.
The driver shouted, pressing down on the train’s control lever: “What to do, what to do? The switch is coming up, and the train can’t stop!”
The train couldn’t stop, and on the two tracks ahead, people were tied up — five on one side, one on the other — this seemed like a classic moral dilemma.
The button to control the track switch was close at hand, and the driver, sweating profusely, asked him, “Who to save?”
The original route of the train was the track with the five people, so Xu Huo didn’t press the button, letting the train run over the five people. After trampling the first two, the train derailed out of control, killing or injuring most of the passengers.
This was clearly not the correct answer, because in the next second, Xu Huo, who also died in the train crash, returned to the ticket booth.
Holding the same ticket, he returned to the previous train. After a joyful ride, the thugs boarded again, and he hid in the driver’s cab. This time, he didn’t make a choice but let the driver choose for himself.
However, the fragile driver couldn’t bear the immense pressure and jumped off the train, while the thugs behind rushed in and damaged the control lever. Once again, the train ran over the group of five, and then the train overturned.
Xu Huo returned to the ticket booth again.
Same ticket, same train,
The original route of the train was the track with the five people, but