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#31
Ok, I've figured it out.

This is a trick question.

The answer is the same for all three questions. You don't do anything and let the situation mount into utter desperation. In the last second Chuck Norris will show up and roundhouse kick the train into PR1.2.

Right...? Right...??
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#32
Originally Posted by ysss View Post
Ok, I've figured it out.

This is a trick question.

The answer is the same for all three questions. You don't do anything and let the situation mount into utter desperation. In the last second Chuck Norris will show up and roundhouse kick the train into PR1.2.

Right...? Right...??
RIGHT!!! pick any prize from the top shelf! did someone just mention hitler? someone call godwin.
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#33
Originally Posted by Dak View Post
...and that single person might have gone on to discover the cure for cancer, while one of the 5 may go on to become the next Hitler, or rapist/murderer/serial killer.
True, but you have no way of knowing. It could be the other way around for all you know.
 
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#34
Quick question:
Is there any way to arrange all six of them in front of that train?
 
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#35
Originally Posted by mankir View Post
Originally Posted by optimistprime View Post
With all of these people tied to tracks, crazy trains, and broken swithches, where the fluck is Superman?
He's busy on PR1.2...

The question should be: If you have an update, which is fixing 5 bugs. Would you deliver it, when 1 bug is not fixed at all? Even it's a major bug?
LMFAO!

1- Unless one of them are family or friend, I let the 5 persons die.
2/3- Fat guy is not guilty for the stupid tied persons
 
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#36
Here is another one:

You're driving a sports car, and you are approaching a bus stop.

You see that there is an old lady in the bus stop who is having a heart attack. Your car is fast enough to take her to the nearest hospital, but by the time the ambulance arrived, she would die.

You also notice that there is an old and very good friend of yours in the bus stop, and he asks you to drive him home. You know that he would be angry for you for a very-very long time if you didn't.

And also there is the best woman you have ever seen in your life. You know that you would never see her again if you pass the opportunity to meet her now.

What would you do in this situation?
 
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Originally Posted by GameboyRMH View Post
True, but you have no way of knowing. It could be the other way around for all you know.
Correct. The point being that there is a seemingly infinite set of things we don't know, yet despite this most profound state of ignorance we presume to assert that saving 5 is somehow 'better' than saving one.

The point at which you decide to pull that switch (with no deeper knowledge of the people involved than their count) is the point at which you become an active decisive participant in a process that will end life.

That's significant. Far more significant than some cheap pop-psychology conundrum.
 
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#38
Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Here is another one:

You're driving a sports car, and you are approaching a bus stop.

You see that there is an old lady in the bus stop who is having a heart attack. Your car is fast enough to take her to the nearest hospital, but by the time the ambulance arrived, she would die.

You also notice that there is an old and very good friend of yours in the bus stop, and he asks you to drive him home. You know that he would be angry for you for a very-very long time if you didn't.

And also there is the best woman you have ever seen in your life. You know that you would never see her again if you pass the opportunity to meet her now.

What would you do in this situation?
let ur mate drive the granny and catch the bus with the hotty!
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#39
I would open Google Chrome on my N900 and look for a better solution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrDHrwLUtvk
 
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Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Here is another one:

You're driving a sports car, and you are approaching a bus stop.

You see that there is an old lady in the bus stop who is having a heart attack. Your car is fast enough to take her to the nearest hospital, but by the time the ambulance arrived, she would die.

You also notice that there is an old and very good friend of yours in the bus stop, and he asks you to drive him home. You know that he would be angry for you for a very-very long time if you didn't.

And also there is the best woman you have ever seen in your life. You know that you would never see her again if you pass the opportunity to meet her now.

What would you do in this situation?
No friend of mine would object to being stood up for some quality poontang...so I'd throw the old lady in the back, play the hero so the hot chick swoons into the front seat, and burn off into the sunset where rampant heroic sex awaits...hopefully with the hot chick, but if not, I doubt an old bag in cardiac arrest will be much of a struggle.
 
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