Current Events > Your building is burning. You can only save ONE: Your dog, or a random toddler.

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LarryFitzgerald
09/06/23 2:21:47 PM
#1:


For the purposes of this scenario, the dog passed out from the smoke and cannot run out beside you.

For the purposes of this scenario, the parents of the toddler have passed out from the smoke.

For the purposes of this scenario, there are no other loopholes or situations that somehow allow you to miraculously save both.

What do you choose?
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CyricZ
09/06/23 2:22:24 PM
#2:


Is the dog named Larry?

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Philip027
09/06/23 2:23:09 PM
#3:


I am not a pet person and I would never have one. But if I did have one, of course I'd save my dog. The baby has no significance to me.
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itachi15243
09/06/23 2:23:23 PM
#4:


The child.

As much as I love my dog, always the child.

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ironman2009
09/06/23 2:23:47 PM
#5:


Dog ez$

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Were_Wyrm
09/06/23 2:24:37 PM
#6:


neither

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archizzy
09/06/23 2:24:57 PM
#7:


Dog all day every day, easiest decision ever. Wouldnt even hesitate.

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ai123
09/06/23 2:25:12 PM
#8:


I'm not a sociopath.

I would save the human over the animal every time.

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Bass
09/06/23 2:25:30 PM
#9:


My dog which is a pitbull that ate the child anyway.

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Scintillant
09/06/23 2:25:33 PM
#10:


I'd save the kid but based on the scenario does the kid's parents die too

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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
09/06/23 2:29:19 PM
#11:


By your scenario, the parents are now dead either way, and are presumably enough heavier than the dog or toddler that you cannot save one of them instead. If this has happened in America, that toddler is NOT going to have a good life after that. The dog presumably will, if saved.

If there is an afterlife, their child can join them in it earlier without suffering through modern existence without a family to support them (adoption is most likely to occur for basically newborns). Also I think society will collapse within 20 years. The dog will have his happy life and pass on before then.


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UnfairRepresent
09/06/23 2:32:10 PM
#12:


ai123 posted...
I'm not a sociopath.

I would save the human over the animal every time.


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emblem-man
09/06/23 2:33:46 PM
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The toddler, no question asked

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LordMarshal
09/06/23 2:35:09 PM
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You come out with your dog and child and abandoned the other child?

Good luck with that.....

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FunWithAFryPan
09/06/23 2:36:33 PM
#15:


Ill save the toddler but Im going back in to perish in the flames trying to rescue my loyal companion.

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Turbam
09/06/23 2:38:28 PM
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I drop my kid so I can carry my dog out with both hands

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itcheyness
09/06/23 2:55:27 PM
#17:


The toddler, I don't like dogs.

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bloodyarts
09/06/23 3:17:18 PM
#18:


The dog is a chihuahua. The baby is in one arm, I carry the chihuahua with the other.
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hereforemnant
09/06/23 3:17:45 PM
#19:


archizzy posted...
Dog all day every day, easiest decision ever. Wouldnt even hesitate.


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garan
09/06/23 3:28:04 PM
#20:


I shove everyone who has ever posted this stupid fucking meme topic into the flames.
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Nemu
09/06/23 3:33:15 PM
#21:


Family is definitely a priority over strangers. Whether its a person or an animal, Id feel way more horrible about leaving a loved one to burn to death over some random stranger Ive never met.
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hereforemnant
09/06/23 3:38:46 PM
#22:


Nemu posted...
Family is definitely a priority over strangers. Whether its a person or an animal, Id feel way more horrible about leaving a loved one to burn to death over some random stranger Ive never met.
Which makes it ironic that some are ascribing others as "sociopath's" for choosing the family or critters that are theirs or that they know & care for, opposed to a stranger's child or someone they do not know or intrinsically emotionally care for. This is hard wired human psychology that your association to something you know will be stronger than for something you do not know, otherwise if all people were so empathetic, we would not be able to cognitively function constantly ham strung by the desire to save or help other's that are not blood related or a constant presence in our life.

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Paragon21XX
09/06/23 3:40:33 PM
#23:


I toss your ass into the burning building and force you to save everyone including the toddler's parents that you have fated to die.

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CARRRNE_ASADA
09/06/23 6:04:23 PM
#24:


itachi15243 posted...
The child.

As much as I love my dog, always the child.


This. As much as you love your dog, its not the same as a human child

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Cemith
09/06/23 6:05:35 PM
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Bass posted...
My dog which is a pitbull that ate the child anyway.

It's just carrying it in an unorthodox manner.

This feels too fucked up to be a joke but we're doing it anyway.

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Crimsoness
09/06/23 6:11:54 PM
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Trick question, both are hallucinations from the smoke you've inhaled

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Mussurana
09/06/23 6:19:19 PM
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itachi15243 posted...
The child.

As much as I love my dog, always the child.
Can't understand any other answer.

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rexcrk
09/06/23 6:19:50 PM
#28:


This topic again?

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TheSavageDragon
09/06/23 6:23:44 PM
#29:


I save them both and then push TC into the burning building for creating this tired topic using his shitty alt.
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VampireCoyote
09/06/23 6:24:33 PM
#30:


but Im tired

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A_Good_Boy
09/06/23 6:29:43 PM
#31:


rexcrk posted...
This topic again?
This topic is CE's favorite way to feel better than other people.

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Puelto295
09/06/23 6:34:42 PM
#32:


My dog is a teacup chihuahua puppy so I grab both
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bevan306
09/06/23 6:38:50 PM
#33:


I miraculously save both

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AgentCoulson
09/06/23 6:39:37 PM
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My dog's a mix between Cocker Spaniel and Border Terrier. He's small enough that I could just carry both out. But since OP wants me to choose, my dog.

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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
09/06/23 11:48:33 PM
#35:


AgentCoulson posted...
My dog's a mix between Cocker Spaniel and Border Terrier. He's small enough that I could just carry both out. But since OP wants me to choose, my dog.

The OP puts me in both the position of having a dog and having a kid (the latter part in some attempt of forcing an excuse to only carry one). So yeah. OP already has you having a kid and a dog, which is not for all of us to begin with. They are trying to force minecart/train swtich-track scenario with extra details, despite us not having any real things of matter, in the event we lack either a dog and/or baby of our own.

Its actually kinda pathetic. Like they want to make some "thinker" post. That tries to force the choosers into already having a dog and a baby of their own, while even ignoring that one may have more than one of EITHER. Among other issues.

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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
09/06/23 11:53:07 PM
#37:


Oh, and yeah, the original rails switch scenario is infinitely better than any semblence of this, that has been posted here at least twice before, because it makes something simple.

Do you do nothing, and three people die, or do you flip a switch, such that one person dies instead. Knowing no matter what, you are only in command of the control switch, and the outcomes. You have to choose whether to do nothing, or to kill someone who would not otherwise die to save more on another track.

Its actually a decent logic vs emotion exercise normally, but topics like this just are people trying to think they are smart while doing a very slight variation of a very old thought experiment.


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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
09/06/23 11:54:05 PM
#38:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


See what I just commented. People wanting to look "smart." Or at least, "thought provoking."

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nocturnal_traveler
09/06/23 11:59:32 PM
#39:


John Wick carefully watches this topic.

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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
09/07/23 12:01:12 AM
#40:


nocturnal_traveler posted...
John Wick carefully watches this topic.

...Who... WATCHES THE WATCHERS?

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Tora_Sami
09/07/23 12:41:49 AM
#41:


ai123 posted...
I'm not a sociopath.

I would save the human over the animal every time.

To me it's the other way around, your a sociopath if you save the human you never met or have any connection to, over a very loyal animal. Fuck the toddler, while I do feel sympathy I choose my family over another's.

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TripleDouble
09/07/23 12:42:27 AM
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I'm not a sociopath.

The dog.

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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
09/07/23 12:45:57 AM
#43:


TripleDouble posted...
I'm not a sociopath.

The dog.

Your are not the first to post this. But in doing so, you ARE the sociopath in the end. The baby's parents are dead, and they will be sent through hell and back multiple times from whatever semblance of orphan care still exists. They will also then suffer further as the poorest class during the collapse when a bunch of humanity starves, enters food/water wars, etc.

Congrats, your silly attempt at being superior has led you to cause more suffering.


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Just_a_loser
09/07/23 12:46:06 AM
#44:


That kid is going to grow up so messed up, losing his parents in a fire. Gonna have deep mental issues into adulthood.

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UnholyMudcrab
09/07/23 12:47:20 AM
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I genuinely do not understand how these topics still get serious answers

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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
09/07/23 12:48:34 AM
#46:


UnholyMudcrab posted...
I genuinely do not understand how these topics still get serious answers

People being unfamiliar with the Trolley Problem, combined with a topic creator who thinks they are intellismart by coming up with a new, less thought out version of it.


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ForsakenHermit
09/07/23 12:50:56 AM
#47:


I wouldn't save the TC. At this point anyone who makes this topic on CE opts out of being a priority to save in a fire.

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UnholyMudcrab
09/07/23 1:01:38 AM
#48:


Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...
People being unfamiliar with the Trolley Problem, combined with a topic creator who thinks they are intellismart by coming up with a new, less thought out version of it.
He's been making the exact same topic on a series of different alts for years

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Kloe_Rinz
09/07/23 1:03:41 AM
#49:


CyricZ posted...
Is the dog named Larry?
No. Its named Einstein
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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
09/07/23 1:06:05 AM
#50:


UnholyMudcrab posted...
He's been making the exact same topic on a series of different alts for years

And it is working. he gets his precious 50 plus post topics to satisfy his desperate ego. Won't even correct the typo.

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