Galena Trolley

johnslat asked:


Suppose you could save five lives by taking one - what would be the correct thing to do?
Here is the first scenario:
A runaway trolley car is hurtling down a track. In its path are five people who will definitely be killed unless you, a bystander, flip a switch which will divert it on to another track, where it will kill one person. Should you flip the switch?
Now, the second scenario:
The runaway trolley car is hurtling down a track where it will kill five people. You are standing on a bridge above the track and, aware of the imminent disaster, you decide to jump on the track to block the trolley car. Although you will die, the five people will be saved.
Just before your leap, you realise that you are too light to stop the trolley. Next to you, a fat man is standing on the very edge of the bridge. He would certainly block the trolley, although he would also die from the impact. A small nudge and he would fall right onto the track below. No one would ever know. Should you push him?
Dear kiss.james
Where in the rules does it say that “you should not post questions that are not your original idea?”
It’s my comment on the answers that’s going to be original.
There’s really no “right” or “wrong” answer
If you chose Yes Yes or No No, you weren’t hypocritical, but if you said Yes for the first but No for the second, I’d say you were. Why? Because in both cases, you’re faced with the choice of killing one to save 5. The only difference is you’d have a greater degree of involvement in the 2nd case when you’d have to physically push the fat man, rather than just flipping the switch.
In the “real world”, pilots drop bombs from 1000s of feet that kill dozens, hundreds or more, and then they land, and most have little trouble sleeping. They’re “divorced” from the consequences. But an infantry soldier who kills one of the enemy in a face-to-face encounter will
likely carry that with him/her the rest of his/her life.
It’s the “intimate involvement” we shy away from; if we are sufficently separated from the consequences of our action or inaction, it rests much easier on our consciences.

tritaniumzero asked:


I pulled into a parking space at ASDA and the second the passenger door was open the people in the next car were saying we had dented their car with our door. The door would need to be fully opened to even reach the car and we had literally not even stepped out of the car yet! The woman driving has taken my registration number claiming she will go to my insurance company, she even had a handy pen and paper ready in her hand. She was obviously trying to blame me for damage that a previous car or trolley has made; her husband in all this stayed very quiet and looked guilty as hell. Does anyone know what I can do? I have taken her address and reg number and she has mine as I didn’t want to just drive off and have the police after me based on her lie.

(This is in England)

Nova_SR_91 asked:


what do you think if this car? i brought it last week and every day since i have had it i’ve been fixing it. i paid £300 for it and i think its a cracking car. im 16 years old (own a nova but not a chav) and im restoring it to mint, fixing the rust etc… and then im going to buy some nice wheels but im not going to ruin it with a shopping trolley for a spoiler or those stupid body kits people put on novas.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn150/91-Nova-SR/Nova1.jpg

Lisa P asked:


I must add that my children are under three years of age, I am waiting for a hip replacement at the age of 34 and I can not walk that good and most times the shopping trolley seems to have a dodgy wheel. I dont think that I’m lazy for parking in these bays and on many occassions I have and still do park in other spots but with a monthly shop and toddlers I have my hands full. I can safely park the trolley by the car instead of the road and put the children in the car safely… This like the disabled spots makes shopping a bit easier… Hope this clarifies why I get annoyed sometimes !!!!!

Happy Murcia asked:


and did you know that a recent study found that the dirtiest and most bacteria covered surface was a supermarket trolley handle,,it was several times dirtier than the inside of a public lavatory bowl,
So would you now wash your hands before tucking into a nice sandwich?

p. andres, MD asked:


OK I’m 18, and I’ll be going to college 2 hours away from home. So I need a car because I want to come home at least once a month or so cause it’s only 2 hours away. But my mom doesn’t want to get me a car, because where my college is, San Diego, there’s a lot of trolleys/buses/trains/etc. and I can get around easily. But the the thing is, I absolutely **** waiting for the bus and it doesn’t take you EXACTLY where you need to be. My mom says waiting for the bus will teach me to “be patient.” I’ve been taking the bus since I was in 6th grade and it’s only taught me how to get angry! Some reasons I’ve given her:
1) I want to come home once a month
2) visit friends in nearby cities/colleges
3) What if I buy something bulky or buy a lot of things, am I supposed to carry that with me on the bus?
4) my brother bought me a GPS for my birthday so that I wouldn’t get lost in San Diego, and now there’s no point having the GPS
5) I want to take road trips outside of San Diego
6) I want to be able to drive up to see my boyfriend every couple weekends (I can’t really use this reason for my mom LOL she’ll freak out hahahaha)

But i need some more reasons. My mom still isn’t convinced. She wants to see how I survive without a car for a month or so but I’m already telling her i’m positive i’m gonna need a car. I need some really good reasons!!! Thanks!

tritaniumzero asked:


I pulled into a parking space at ASDA and the second the passenger door was open the people in the next car were saying we had dented their car with our door. The door would need to be fully opened to even reach the car and we had literally not even stepped out of the car yet! The woman driving has taken my registration number claiming she will go to my insurance company, she even had a handy pen and paper ready in her hand. She was obviously trying to blame me for damage that a previous car or trolley has made; her husband in all this stayed very quiet and looked guilty as hell. Does anyone know what I can do? I have taken her address and reg number and she has mine as I didn’t want to just drive off and have the police after me based on her lie.
(To clarify… this is in England)

Margaret C asked:


they advised me customers park at own risk, but with no signage at all stating this do i have any case?
yes chris i am aware of that and your comment is soooo helpfull, however due to the fact this is the third time in 3 weeks this has happened to my car and im starting to get slightley annoyed. i am not looking for costs to repair my car that unfortuatley will heve to be claimed on insurance, but surley i have a case to appeal to them to put some sort of trolley securement system into place, to ensure lazy ***** return there trolleys to where they belong in bays and not in the centre of car parks!
oh and may i also add that said supermarket who admittedley had no trlley staff working on a certain day had a serious accident involving a car swerving to avoid a trolley and hut a young child!

jvan33112001 asked:


Suppose that the time, X, that a tourist must wait to board a trolley car in San Francisco is a uniformly distributed random variable over the interval from 0 minutes to 10 minutes.
a.What is the probability that the tourist’s wait-time is exactly 0 minutes?
b.What is the probability that a tourist must wait longer than 8 minutes to board the trolley car?
c.What is the expected wait-time for a tourist?

Drea asked:


okay at the beginning of February, I’m getting a check worth about 2,000. and my mom said if i was going to get a car she would chip in a 1,000. so that is 3,000, but a local car dealership sales used cars to college students and takes 1,000 off the price. so for 3,000 i can get a 4,000 car. the car would be awesome because this city doesn’t have buses/trolleys or any way to travel.
or i can get braces. i wanted something for my upper row because it has spacing. braces would be wonderful because if i had great teeth then i’d definitely be a 10. i am so low-confidence about my teeth.

i want both equally, because if i get a car i can get a much better job. if i get a better job then i can eventually get braces.
if i get braces i will have much better confidence. i have a low confidence.