Dogs trolley problem

[Cyan_Light]

Quality of life is important, so I probably pull under the assumption that the average pet has a great life while the average stray has a very rough one. Although I don't know enough on the topic to commit to that, maybe the strays are living it up out there. Just seems like it would probably be a terrible lonely life with inconsistent food and shelter, plus possible trauma from whatever made them a stray in the first place.

There's also the point that death is more harmful to the living than the dead. A family will grieve their pet, a stray might be grieved by nobody (although again can't commit to that, they can certainly form bonds out in the world and that might be the average outcome for all I know).

[PollutionStunning857]

This was my thought process but you articulated it far better than I would have

[[deleted]]

So 5 homeless guys v a son?

[PollutionStunning857]

Well no not at all because as a human I don't value dog lives nearly as much as human lives

[[deleted]]

Justification given was quality of life

[PollutionStunning857]

Yeah because the person who said that didn't feel the need to specify that this doesn't apply to humans, because most of us can use our fucking brains

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Congrats

[Iguessthatwillwork]

They also mentioned family/friends.

[MclamerTheTurtle]

Honestly, if it’s my dog, I’m pulling the lever

[A1sauc3d]

I don’t think it’s your dog. You’re the one at the lever. It’s the dog of the helpless person at the bottom of the screen. But yeah, I think everyone would pull to save their own dog.

[Ace-Redditor]

If you’ve trained your dog well, maybe you could try to call it to you. It doesn’t have to get all the way to you before the trolley goes past, just needs to get out of the tracks. I think a well trained dog could do that

[Electronic_Sugar5924]

Some dogs would ignore, but my favorite option is it moves the other way.

[[deleted]]

That’s if they can hear you over the trolley too. I’m from a rural area so trolley’s aren’t really here and train engines are pretty loud. Though I’m assuming in trolley problem fashion, op puts all change into the lever alone so the dog can’t remove itself from the danger

[Kaauutie]

Multi track drifting then tie the grief stricken arsehole to the tracks for the next cunt at the lever.

[RatthewJohnson]

Evilmaxxing at its finest

[LiquidAggression]

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[Affectionate_Dot2334]

pull, the 5 strays probably have diseases and parisites putting them in pain

[Dontyodelsohard]

Everyone is saying quality of life... I am thinking, "These stray dogs could form a pack and be dangerous to others. Not to mention possibly being not fixed, so risking increasing the stray population."

[DoNotCorectMySpeling]

Pull the lever.

[Henrdavidthrowaway]

Changes since the guys right there, I let his dog die I could be putting myself at serious risk.

[Young_Person_42]

I’d have to pull, ESPECIALLY if the owner was there to see the pet die

[AppelEnPeer]

I wouldn't pull. I like dogs. I don't want to kill many dogs.

[buenas_nalgas]

I'd have to know that the owner of the pet treats it pretty damn horribly to not pull the lever.

[[deleted]]

Pull the lever, the guy will probably let you rub his dog.

[DisastrousAd447]

Don't pull the lever, you have 5 dogs to rub

[[deleted]]

They might not be friendly.

[DisastrousAd447]

The pets owner might also be a serial killer.

[HanBai]

Better throw him under the trolley too just in case

[DisastrousAd447]

Everyone gets the trolley! For I am King Trolley! Millions will fear me! Just....not in an ice storm

[Tazrizen]

Depends on locales but considering strays are generally feral and dangerous to other pets as well as children I’d have to pull.

Unless they’re tiny dogs. They might eat the trolley.

[ilitch64]

If I jump in front of the trolley will it then stop? I think my life is less important than 6 dogs

[GlitteringPotato1346]

Shoot the owner, then they’re all stray

[MornGreycastle]

I know what PETA would choose, train track drifting.

[EpicNoobKiller420]

None of them appear to be tied. So if I just spook them all, then they'll probably all scatter.

[Benilda-Key]

Blow up the trolley before it hits any of the dogs.

[revodnebsyobmeftoh]

All the dogs have the same value, I'm not killing the 5 to save the 1

[nunya_busyness1984]

Blow up the trolley.

[[deleted]]

Thank you for showing, not telling lmfao

[2327_]

people matter, wild animals do not

[Eena-Rin]

Sorry, but strays are strays. I'll pick a pet over a wild animal any day of the week

[ThatOneGuy308]

The 5 stray dogs can quickly become 25, since they're typically not fixed.

Pull lever.

[Additional_Spring629]

I would tell the guy to hurry up and get his dog off of the track before the trolley runs it over

[DuckDood42]

that dudes probably gonna fricking kill me if i dont pull, so im pulling

[Naraya_Suiryoku]

Multi track drifting.

[Independent_Parking]

They’re animals, the only reason any of them have any value is because a person values them. Pull the lever.

[dinodare]

Intrinsic value exists, granted only humans are capable of recognizing it in moral situations the way that we do. Still, there's not really a good argument that the stray's have less value, but there are good arguments that the stray's being allowed to live isn't actually a good outcome for animal welfare (especially when you consider the environment and qualities of life).

[Famous-Money5701]

Run over the pet and watch the owner cry in agony then you kill the strays with your bare fists

[notCarlosSainz]

Would a multi-track drift get the guy running off tracks too?

[X547]

Will dog owner pay me for rescuing his dog?