It's that time of year again!

[theweaselking]

Quick! Should you swap?

Comments

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

It depends. Was the building to be revealed chosen at random?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Clearly not, since it was revealed with certainty that it contained only one person.

This is not Monty Fall where sometimes he reveals the prize by accident and all we know is that those situations are discarded.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

SMBC also provides us with this novel option.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

If your primary criteria is casualty limitation, then yes; aim at the revealed building as you're certain to only hit one guy.

-- Steve thinks it'd make for lousy TV, though.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

[golfclap]

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

IAWTC.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

So, in the original trolley problem, you don't switch the tracks from the more-people to the less-people because it means that you're playing god, and you're choosing to interfere in matters of death when you don't have the omnipotence to know which death is best. But in this problem, you're already involved in the situation, and you've already played god by making a first choice, so I don't think it's worse to re-involve yourself and choose again? So this sounds like the correct decision.

Pointing out the obvious

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

This cartoon would have been quite a bit funnier if the speaker pictured looked at least a little bit like Monty Hall.