thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out
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@ZenHeathen @SnoopJ
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@colorblindcowboy @SnoopJ I find that often when people respond like that, what actually happened is that they were trying to prove a point based on their own beliefs, were caught out by learning that there are actually other ways to look at things that they hadn't considered, and desperately try to re-scope the conversation to the options they had considered so that they can continue believing what they believe...
@joepie91 I think you’re exactly right.
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@SnoopJ @ZenHeathen Yes. The spirit of the above image has always struck me as "don't settle for answers that the System suggests. There is ALWAYS a solution that respects human dignity"
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@ZenHeathen @SnoopJ right - that decision isn't a vacuum, there's infrastructure (a whole damn railway) built up before this moment.
maybe you face harsh consequences for slipping the switch, maybe you don't have a union and your risk tolerance that day with your kids means you can't - either way, if you see a trolley switch being built into someone else's /future/, do something about it before they're forced to make that choice.
get them the support to change the infrastructure around them
@risottobias @ZenHeathen @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io someone posted this on fedi a while ago, I don't remember who posted it, but this nails it.
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@ZenHeathen @SnoopJ
original artist unknown, sorry.@fishidwardrobe @ZenHeathen @SnoopJ In SLC, UT, where I lived for 6 years - I'm from SW Wyoming - the city has light rail. And when it's snaking through the city, it's very slow. A child on their knees goes faster. But to get to the southern suburbs, it goes down this corridor that follows I-15, and these trains just high-ball it down this corridor. But there is this one point with a street intersection, that we call "suicide point". Because there has been a lot of this kind of stuff there
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thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out
@SnoopJ that's if there is a union to fight for safety measure. If management is left unchecked, they would gut the safety measure and such operation would derail the trolley, kill everyone on both line, the trolley inocupant and cause a fire burning three blocks and making 12 familly homeless. Management would get fined half what they saved by removing the safety feature then get twice that as a bonus for saving money.
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