• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    After a few miles down the tracks, I won’t see or hear the trolley anymore, therefore i can not be certain it even exists anymore. It may have run over someone, it may have derailed, it may have exploded, it may have run out of fuel and stopped, a black hole might have opened up in its path and swallowed it whole.

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    9 months ago

    In that case, no, and you’re not responsible anymore. Those people working on switching out the trolley parts had every available opportunity to fully stop the trolley, more-so than you. You diverted it to save a life immediately, that crew maintaining this Trolley of Death are the real murderers.

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      9 months ago

      What if the maintenance crew themselves didn’t know that the trolley was going to hit the tied down person 1000 miles away?

      I blame the trolley company’s CEO and shareholders for allowing a random person to divert the trolley’s path in the first place.