------------------------ Welcome to the trolley problem polls!
Here I strap various characters into the trolley problem and let you all decide if you flick the lever or not.
------------------------ How the Trolley Problem works: The trolley problem is an ethic thought experiment designed to cause an ethic dilemma. The core premise of the trolley problem is do you save five people by killing one person or kill five people and do nothing. The dilemma typically arises in the fact the you are required to actively kill the one person by flicking the lever. Many studies have been done on the trolley problem and it seems that about 90% of people will flick the lever to save the five people. However, this number typically drops when the person they are choosing is a friend or a family member. It is for this reason that adding a well known characters is expected to skew the results and create more conflict. The main conflict typically arises in the trolley problem with a conflict between the utilitarian idea of saving as many people as you can and the morality of actively killing people. Due to this different variations where the person involved has more agency over killing the one person typically have more conflict involved (see fat man or medical variations). ------------------------ Submissions:
If you want to submit a character just send in an ask and I can setup a poll for them. It'll usually take a few days to get around to as I often make the posts in bulk.
When suggesting a trolley problem the character you send will be a single character on the secondary track against five random people by default. If you have any specific conundrums you wish then please specify, otherwise I'll just try take a best guess as to what you want. You can also submit in characters that have already been placed in the trolley problem but there needs to be significant change to the trolley problem as whole. Feel free to suggest the most absurd trolley problems you can thing of really, the more wild the better! Currently there are no standardized rules on submission but I may still avoid putting a character if I deem it a bad fit for the polls. Might also be worth noting I am not always the most in on fandom stuff so there is a good chance I have no clue who the character you are submitting is so keep that in mind. Once a submission has been made I will respond to you ask either saying the post has been added to the queue or that I require more information (This will not occur you request on anon).
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