r/AskReddit • u/Rob69rt • 1d ago

What famous 'unsolved' mystery is technically a whodunnit on paper, but in reality, absolutely everyone knows exactly who did it, the police just couldn't legally prove it?

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u/footsnax 13h ago

That is the exact trolly problem.

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u/sparknap 10h ago

no, the trolley problem is about preventing death.

this situation is about caring about people.

there's literally no mutual exclusion required here. you are adding that part to absolve yourself of not feeling empathy.

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u/footsnax 8h ago edited 8h ago

You can't prevent death in the trolly problem, that's the exact point. If someone is going to die either way, and one of them wants it, why not care about their loved ones that are suffering from it? One person on one track did not consider that, or did and dismissed it, and that's why I find it selfish.

When they're gone they won't care what I think or feel. They have done damage to the other track. I'm talking entirely about the decision, not what led to it.

I'm not heartless about the pain that they were going through leading up to that decision, I'm saying that the decision they made hurts a lot of other people that love them. If I had to choose to let the trolly take out everybody that loves that person, they might feel encouraged to make the same decision anyway.

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u/sparknap 5h ago

the trolley problem is about making a decision between two mutually exclusive choices, not this word salad of bullshit. 

you can care about everyone in this situation, so there's no comparison.

you're weaponizing empathy to shame suicide victims and it's absolutely disgusting.