games and stuff to play around with
games and stuff to play around with
A runaway trolley. Two tracks. Your call. It only gets weirder from here.
The trolley problem is philosophy's most famous thought experiment. A runaway trolley is about to hit five people tied to the tracks. You stand next to a lever: pull it and the trolley diverts to a side track where it will hit one person instead. Do nothing and five die; act and one dies because of you. Philosophers have argued about it since Philippa Foot posed it in 1967, and nobody has settled it yet.
Because the original is only round one. This game starts with the classic dilemma, then mutates it fifteen times: what if the one person is you, what if the five are asleep and will never know, what if the trolley is carrying your Amazon package. Each variant quietly isolates a different moral instinct, utilitarian math versus personal responsibility versus pure self-interest, and watching your own answers flip is the whole point.
After every choice you see the percentage of players who picked each option, so you know exactly how normal or unhinged your moral compass is. At the end you get your total victim count and a shareable verdict. There are no right answers. There is, however, a body count.