Comic #6691: trolley-7

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Panel 1:
Person 1: Suppose you're in a runaway trolley.
Person 2: No! I refuse!

Panel 2:
Person 1: The whole trolley problem thing stops being a dilemma the moment you change the emotional valence to positive.
Person 2: Hm?
Person 1: Suppose you're in a runaway trolley.

Panel 3:
Narration: The trolley is a magic trolley that generates hot shirtless men with happy prosocial lives.
Narration: Another great day working at the refugee welfare NGO, then off to strip for charity.

Panel 4:
Person 1: On your current track, you will only generate one. If you switch tracks, you will generate five.

Panel 5:
Person 2: Anyone in need of a coconut oiling?
Person 3: Indeed.
Person 4: Surely.
Person 5: I can use the leftovers for tonight's soup kitchen dinner.

Panel 6:
Narration: So you switch tracks in favor of five hot dudes. Duh.
Narration: Hooray. My intuition has not been violated at all.

Panel 7:
Person 1: Wow. Huh.
Person 2: Five is more than one. That's the whole dilemma!

Panel 8:
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