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You're right but I've seen a huge rise of this in ukraine since 2014

Yeah I feel exactly the same way. I'm doing more good by pulling the lever, but I also don't really want to kill that guy

there is a lot of fascinating nationalist crankery in eastern europe. Another one(and my personal favourite) is fomenko's new chronology

a good ol' pigeon

I don't know the specifics, but there are ukraninan nationalists who think that ukraine is the origin of all culture and civilization

Jesus was friends with this guy

what if the lever has bird poop on it?

I know that's not really an answer but i feel like pulling the lever is admitting defeat. I'm not playing this game you know

Fair enough. This question fucks me up every time I try thinking about it. Can't make a decision

nah man. Jesus' closest living relative is Blake from Brooklyn

meme answer: he was a roman subject

serious answer: nationality is a modern invention and makes no sense when talking about 1st century CE Judaea

I agree on the first point. It depends on who these people are

tho I think this thought experiment is meant to be super abstract in order to gauge someone's ethics. Personally, I'm leaning toward not pulling the lever because i'd probably feel more personally responsible for killing this one person than letting five people die

Hufflepuff.