The Trolley Poll-blem

What would you do?

You are in public with a young child you know who normally uses the opposite gendered-bathroom as you. (If you usually use the women’s bathroom, they’d use the men’s and vice versa). However, the child really needs to go to the bathroom, it’s an emergency and nobody else can take them. No gender-neutral bathroom is available.

Hypothetically, if you were to completely clone yourself in any fashion (biologically, digitally, or spiritually), would it split your consciousness, transfer your consciousness to the clone, or simply replicate a 'fake' consciousness inside the clone?

Would you hypotheticalically drink a gallon of human blood if it granted you $500 each time you did it?

If you had a portal to an alternate universe where everyone was gone, but you had only day to make a choice to go into to it before it closed forever, would you go in?

If the technology for teleportation was capable of being shared by you, would you sell it?

If the world was ending tomorrow and you knew it, what would you do?

If we made contact with alien lifeforms, would they likely be mammalian, reptilian, avian, aquatic, amphibian, arthropodial, fungal, botanical, bacterial, or archae-like?

Would you hypothetically drink a serum that granted immortality, even if it didn't grant eternal youth nor invulnerability? Regeneration and inconsequential aging are the added benefits, though you still have to face the unsaid downsides of immortality.

If you were offered a quintillion dollars, but had the choice to give it up to millions of people in desperate need of it globally and with equity, would you do it?

Would you sterilize two-thirds of the population if it gave scientists the chance to fix significant ecological issues humanity has caused? This would drastically reduce the exploitation and consumption of many resources, but stop the sterilised population from procreating via any method.

The Earth has undergone runaway climate change, reducing the human population to a quarter of what it once was and causing irreversible ecological devastation. One day your country’s space agency approaches you and says they have good news: a potentially habitable planet has been discovered orbiting a star only 4 light years from Earth. They have decided to use the remainders of their funds to scrap together a mission to colonize the planet, eventually bringing as many people as they can there if the mission is successful. You have a unique specialty that makes you vital to the success of the mission: if you go, the mission will most likely succeed, but if you don’t, it will probably fail. However, by going on the mission, you’d have to leave everything and everyone you know behind, for years at minimum, until (if you’re successful) they can follow you to the planet. A few other people will be on the mission, too, but not anyone you know. You’ll be in hypersleep for most of the mission and will have similar odds of survival to if you stayed on earth. If the mission fails, almost everyone on Earth will die within the next 100 years.

An 8-year-old child you love is undergoing a dangerous surgery with a 50% chance of survival. They ask, worriedly, if there’s a chance they’re not gonna make it.

You become aware that a piece of machinery in your workplace is faulty and that if it is not repaired then there will soon be an accident which will result in someone losing the use of their legs. Despite knowing that nobody else is aware of the fault, you take no action.

Your friend is engaged to her fiancé and they are going to get married in 2 months. Your friend has had some bad experiences with cheating and is really scared about being cheated on, but her fiancé assures her that he has never cheated and would never cheat on her. However, someone has recently sent you undeniable proof that your friend’s fiancé cheated on his girlfriend in high school. He seems like a much better person than he was in high school, and there’s no evidence of him having cheated on your friend or in any other relationship. You know that if you tell your friend, she would probably call off the wedding.