La problema del tranvia mas grande
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La problema del tranvia mas grande
A few moments later, the train stops, and heavily armed terrorists appear in every carriage. They herd all passengers toward the exits, where they are ejected into an arid, empty Chihuahuan landscape. As each passenger is forced from the train, they have their telephones confiscated, and they are each given a gun - a hand gun of some sort.
Before the dazed, bewildered, terrorised travelers can regain their senses, the train starts up again, the doors slammed shut, and off it goes, leaving 500 US citizens standing there in confusion.
It is a crazy world, and this sort of **** happens all the time. But the question is: what are you going to do?
For simplicity's sake, you must choose from the following:
1. You retrieve from your sock a second telephone, and place a call to Houston, to say "we have a trolley problem". Actually, this is not an option - there is no mobile reception in this far flung semi-desert.
2. You immediately threaten at gunpoint as many weaker, less prepared fellow travelers as you can, and take their guns. You have had no time to plan your next move, however you aim to be the most heavily armed in the group.
3. You don't even think but just instinctively aim at the nearest person and squeeze the trigger.
4. You check if your gun is loaded, and seeing it is not, you assume all the other guns are also empty, say "God bless America", take your own revolver from its holster, and command the situation.
5. Using your advanced, rapid negotiating skills, you form a working group with the aim of making a human bridge back across the river, by which one person - you - will be returned to home soil, at the cost of all 499 other passengers.
6. Using your powers of persuasion, you convince some of the group that recent events, as shocking as they were, have delivered a golden opportunity: the chance to form a polite, well armed society, free from the shackles of tyrannical government.
Which will you choose?
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