Saw this in hexbear memes yesterday. To me it reads as a satire of the holier than thou attitudes I see around here. But it also had no downvotes and nobody was challenging it, so I wonder if it reads differently to you, and how if so.

I tried asking the OP but I was told not to expect discussion in the memes community

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    That’s how I read it. The tracks have to be connected.

    If you are standing with the leaver, the trolley can’t change tracks, no matter how much you pull it.

    If you’re standing at the leaverless track, you don’t even have the illusion of control over the situation.

    The only moral choice in this image is to get on the moving trolley and try to stop it yourself.

    Which is always an option in each one of these trolley images.

    Ultimately, the “Trolley Problem” is stupid as a rhetorical device because life isn’t binary.