You wait for the train to mangle him to bits, then you quickly run over and kick his body parts off the track and then he regenerates over there somewhere.
I’m picturing a bunch of little men regenerating from the separate parts
Phantasia
The Disney movie Fantasia? Did it happen in that movie? It’s been a while
10 seconds between rounds over the immortal? Easy fucking peasy to solve - let it over him once, stay in place for when you have 10 seconds to pull him out. Check-fucking-mate.
Besides, since the tram will be looping, it’ll be very easy to force it to stop somehow, like derailing or putting a concrete block on the track.
Also, if our immortal friend’s tissues and bones end up in the rails and the wheels, the chances of the tram failing to move increase with every trip, it might not even make it to loop 100. Also also, if, for whatever reason, one of the tram runs turns the fellow around, such that the chains end up on the track, the bump will derail the thing.
Hey I just thought of a new solution to the trolley problem. Instead of flipping the switch or not, stick an object on the tracks that derails the trolley. Guessing there’s a decent chance no one dies since trolleys generally don’t have the speed or intertia that a train has. The chaos option.
The true choice was the lever all along.
Oh by gods, just derail the bloody thing!
Multi-track drifting!
Everyone should read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Some people have never had to cut through chain quickly, and it shows.
Give me 10 minutes with my cordless angle grinder and a fresh pack of cutting discs and I’ll have every link cut from head to toe
Or 20 minutes with a hacksaw and I’ll at least have a link cut that allows me to unravel the chain.
Or just make the immortal person Jeff bezos and I’ll just call it a day?
He’s just wrapped in chains. Roll him so he goes groin first once, because fuck him for making me get out of my
chainchair, then roll him the rest of the way to safety. He can starve the rest of the way out of the chains.
Rip up the tracks, thus stalling the tram before it gets to immortal man.
Since he’s immortal, some form of extreme violence like a concentrated explosion would destroy the chain quickly and free him with minimal separate regeneration cycles.
Since he’s immortal, why doesn’t he free himself after he gets severed the first time
Scenario 1: It is difficult, but not impossible to free the man from his chains or otherwise disrupt the functions of the trolley. You can eventually save him, so switching the trolley to his track is morally correct.
Scenario 2: The man cannot be freed from the track, the trolley will never stop running him over, and his suffering will never end. From a purely mathematical standpoint, he will eventually experience more suffering than the mortals tied to the track, so it would be more moral to allow the trolley to kill them and end their suffering immediately. ON THE OTHER HAND, if he’s immortal and can’t be freed, he will also experience infinite suffering just from being forever tied to an empty track, so it’s arguably no different if he’s being run over or not, so it would be more moral to give him the trolley and then let the other people go free so they can go out and enjoy their lives.
So infinite suffering is worse than taking 5 lives, but finite suffering isn’t.
Then, where’s the cutoff? Would it be fine if he can be saved after 1 week? A year? A millennium?
how much work will it take? who will organize it? who will pay for it? will my taxes go up?
Not infinite suffering, as the trolley battery will only last for 10,000 years.
Sigh… unzips solar panels
