## [RT][MK] The prisoner's trolley problem

* Author: u/GaBeRockKing  *Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857**
* URL: https://np.reddit.com/r/GoldandBlack/comments/5uag3p/introducing_the_prisoners_trolley_problem/?ref=share&ref_source=link
* Score: 2

* Created: 2017-02-16T05:13:42

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/PeridexisErrant** [+1]  *put aside fear for courage, and death for life* (an hour later)
> 
> This doesn't look like rational fiction to me - maybe post it in the off-topic or general rationality thread?

>> **u/GaBeRockKing** [+2]  *Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857* (9 hours later)
>> 
>> Probably should have been tagged [D] instead of [RT], but I think this deserved its own thread on the basis that it was, after all, posted in its own thread to begin with.

> **u/GaBeRockKing** [+0]  *Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857* (a minute later)
> 
> I noticed this while idly checking out /r/goldandblack and thought it was an interesting problem to solve.
> 
> I took a stab [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/GoldandBlack/comments/5uag3p/introducing_the_prisoners_trolley_problem/ddssone/) to try and figure it out with game theory, but I'm iffy about how well I did. What do you guys think?

>> **u/IWantUsToMerge** [+2]  (an hour later)
>> 
>> There's a solution none of the comments there seem to have come up with... why don't you just establish a state to enforce mutual cooperation?

>>> **u/GaBeRockKing** [+2]  *Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857* (an hour later)
>>> 
>>> I actually addressed that-- option 3, the utilitarian God Emperor.
>>> 
>>> Of course, that was posted in /r/GoldandBlack, the anarcho-capitalist subreddit, so I don't think they'll be particularly in favour :P.

>>>> **u/IWantUsToMerge** [+1]  (3 hours later)
>>>> 
>>>> Ah, you're not from there? I was going to give you shit.
>>>> 
>>>> An ancap would have talked about voluntary social contracts and enforcement organizations and then I would have told them "son, what you're describing there is a state", and then they would have been enlightened.

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