#trolley roblem

[memesonnets]

Two roads diverged within a yellow wood,

and both of them were made of hot-rolled steel.

Two railroad tracks, that is. This trolley could

go either way, depending how you feel.

Now look! The trolley’s headed straight ahead!

Five people on the tracks! I feel bereft!

And those five people will quite soon be dead

if you don’t pull the lever to go left!

But if you choose to pull the lever now,

the trolley hits one person on the track.

Think quickly! You will have to choose somehow.

(You cannot break, and also can’t go back.)

You are complicit if you are involved —

how can the trolley Gordian knot be solved?

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