Nanny Goats Soap Box
This all depends on the nature of the circumstances...
did i have Mt. Dew before i got on the trolley?
how many cigarettes have i smoked?
when was the last time i had sex?
am i wearing clean underwear?
did my mother call me that morning?
These are all VERY RELEVANT weights tipping the scales of sacrifice...
Do you REALLY want to know MY answer to that??
I didn't think so.
But just for the sake of argument, Snidely Whiplash had better move. Like now.
I have heard this before, well I don't get the Dennis Hopper bit?
If it was my grandmother on the track then I would pull the lever, I never liked her anyways.
(Okay I wouldn't really)
I haven't heard this before. But, I'd pull the lever. If that crazy person standing on the tracks didn't move out of the way, well then...
Hopefully I wake up and it was all a bad dream...however, if the one man was a.) Matt Damon b.) Morgan Freeman or c.) Orlando Bloom, those five people are SOL.
So I'M on the trolley? And I have a chance to save myself? Yeah, I'll take that option. Sorry mystery man who was stupid enough to be on the tracks in the first place.
never heard this but guess i'd run 'em down!
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This is why women should never drive.
At least that's what my husband tells me.
Interesting. I've heard various versions of this scenario, but usually in a religious context. (Think about it.)
Oh crap...I hate math questions....
jump the fuck out.
I run to save the little GOAT, of course!
How cute is he? And it'd be super taking him for a walk in my neighborhood, totally confusing the dog owners walking their pugs and poodles and Jack Russels and pitbulls...
Save the goat. It's all so simple.
Those nuns were just exotic dancers in costume anyway.
Avoid guilt and make someone else pull the lever...
Is this something Denis Hopper asks people? I musta missed that movie.
I'd probably just jump from the cart.
I do like that watermelon piggy!
If you aren't sure about the Dennis Hopper reference, click on the "What do you do?" link after "Pop quiz, hotshot".
Or...I'll just tell you, it's a quote from the movie Speed.
I say eat the people on the trolley.
Ask the nuns to pray for me as I would most likely jump.
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kill the idiot to save myself.
end of story.
Oh No, such a confusion. I hate such questions. I think I'll end up thinking only! What dilemma have you put me into?
Can't we just wait for Keanu Reeves to save us all?
Hi guys
This is James here I think Nanny Goats in Panties is written by a fellow mid-lifer living in Sacramento. She pretty new at the blogging game. Ill just call her Nanny.
Thanks
James
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Dennis Hopper's way too sober these days. In his prime, that wouldn't have made any sense at all....
I'd shout to tell him to move but then as Mr Spock said
"The needs of the many, outway the needs of the few"
but then I'm running on hormones Mwaahaa
I can't afford to go to San Francisco so this will never be a problem for me.
Thanks a lot. This is going to bug me all day. I'd probably spend so much time trying to decide what I was going to do that I'd miss the chance to pull the lever.
Oh, who am I kidding. I'm pull the damn lever, unless it was a child on the tracks. I don't think even my "the hell with you and hooray for me" mentality would allow myself to run over a child.
I thought this was gonna be one of those "if a train left Boston traveling 45 blah-blah-blah" questions, but you saved it.
I'd pull the lever.
The dumb-ass standing on the RR tracks is gettin squashed.
what a funny site--that furry guy would make a true scapegoat!
As for me, I'd notice the sign by the level stating for railroad employees only and then have a clean conscience by not doing anything
Best not run over da goat!!!
How can you tell if Hopper is sober? Looks to me like a buncha his grey cells permanently jumped his tracks long ago.
I guess I am wondering if this is a common occurrence in cities with trolleys?
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Because you introduced the Dennis Hopper/Speed-verse, it means that the laws of physics no longer apply, right?
You accelerate so that the trolley *jumps* the guy, missing him by inches, only to land safely back on the tracks and slow to a gentle halt, saving all involved while still appearing to be a single-digit-IQ surfer. Duh.
That's a tough call. If I choose to save the five lives, they will all thank me, but most ppl would also criticize me for not being noble enough to spare the one guy's life.
If I choose to sacrifice those five lives, people would still criticize me in the end.
The best course of action is obvious, then. I make a short speech on how I'm going to sacrifice all of our lives to save that one guy, because I don't want to be the direct cause of anyone's death.. blah blah yada yada...
And at the critical moment, I 'accidentally' pull our trolley to the other track, saving our asses and knocking the idiot on the tracks out of our way. Hell, he should have known better anyway.
At worst, people would just call me clumsy... Bah. As if they don't do that already.
:D
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