Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for October 30, 2016
October 29, 2016
October 31, 2016
Transcript:
Suppose you have a starving family. You pass a bakery. If you don't steal bread, your family will die. If you do still bread... You are put into a runaway trolley. The trolley is headed for a crowd of people. You can alter its path so that it only hits one person. If you hit that lone person, their body will be surgically connected to yours in order to survive. Now, the- Stop! You're just concatenating ethical problems in a way that doesn't provide any additional clarity. Twist: the person who surgically connected to you... Is the baker.
Sir Ruddy Blighter about 8 years ago
SMBC proves that you can be too smart to be funny
lopaka about 8 years ago
If this were Hillary and Trump, it would become a very interesting problem.
markjoseph125 about 8 years ago
Here’s another one:One train with 50 politicians is about to crash head on into another train with 100 politicians. If you flip the switch, the collision will be averted. You flip the switch. Question: should you receive the gas chamber? Or the electric chair?
Teto85 Premium Member about 8 years ago
A problem with a starving person, a spouse of a sick person, etc, any of these presenting a person in need of something lifesaving being forced to do something illegal to survive, cure the illness, etc., is a display of how callous our society is to the suffering of others.
Stephen Gilberg about 8 years ago
You are in a desert. You see a tortoise on its back. If you flip it, it will go on to become a pet for the next Hitler….
InColorado about 8 years ago
So this is what they teach in college these days
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 8 years ago
This is the Kobyashi Maru without any meaningful reason.
bookworm0812 about 8 years ago
Funny. “Concatenate” was a clue in my quote-acrostic puzzle today!