One musta assume 100 reincarnating trolley people happy

It really depends on the specifics of the top track. Are people added to the top track just in time to be run over by the trolley, or is the track pre-populated with an endless arrangement of people waiting to be run over.

If it's the later case, how do people further down the track survive for an unbounded amount of time while waiting to be run over? Do they wait, bound and screaming for an eternity? How do they survive long enough to be alive before being run over?

I need to know if the top track reduces to running over an infinite arrangement of corpses. Or, if trolley time for the top track has some different meaning, such that the trolley brings an end to the finite life lived by each next person on the track.

For any randomly chosen person on an infinitely long track, the trolley will take an infinite amount of time to reach them. 0% of the people on the track are harmed at all.

100 people hands down. Infinite people means infinite lives removed, infinite experiences etc. The 100 people will never truly die either, so if minimizing death is the goal, that's best. It also is the choice that will happen without your input and those are usually better morally than actively changing and sentencing other people to death by yourself.

Infinite suffering for a small group of people in exchange for saving everyone else in existence is basically the story of the Heralds in Stormlight Archive

I smell hilbert's hotel:

Let the trolley run on the top track, but before it can hit anyone, move everybody one to the right. Repeat the process infinitely. Nobody gets run over.

I pull the switch when the trolley is straddling the switching point, thus safely derailing the vehicle so it doesn't kill anyone.

Hmm, why are people so bad at teaching calc 2?

I think ethically, you have to let 1 + 1 + 1... die.

To let the same hundred people be tortured for eternity is basically hell.

See, the thing about the 1+1+1 is that they can't all die at ONCE. Even moving at a reasonable clip, let's say that trolley kills say, one person a second. Two people per second already die anyway, so yes, we're increasing the mortality rate, but humanity can survive that, and statistically a lot of people wouldn't end up dying by trolley. It would SUCK that there's a chance you might wind up on the trolley and dead at any time, but dying is already a natural part of life and it happens to everyone at some point anyway, so there's nothing inherently STRANGE about adding a trolley death every second.

The 100 reincarnating people will be suffering FOREVER, repeatedly, with no reprieve or redemption, and the real kicker is all the other people in the other lane are dying ANYWAY, just as people always have, so it's not like you've really SAVED them - you've just not allowed the mortality rate to increase at the cost of eternal suffering for a few people. Doesn't seem like a good trade.

It's a more interesting question if we change it slightly and all of the infinite people are Wolverine, bub.

Multi track drifting might be the solution in this case

Easy, move the second and third together, 4th, 5th and 6th together, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th, and so on. Killing 1 + 2 + 3... until infinite, having Killing a total of -1/12 person.

Wow, what a conundrum. Really difficult to implement multi-track drifting with this setup.

Do I get to choose the 100 people?

Killing everyone once ends all suffering. It's only the reanimation that's evil.

Flip the lever right as the cart is going by to derail it

The illusion of choice, either way there will be infinite suffering

The 1+1+1... Track, because it's objectively the better option. The trolley will not last forever, so the more moral option when facing two "infinite death" scenarios is the minimize the kills per second, and the top track is less densely packed.

Everyone overlooking the rigorous maintenance required on the trolley. There will need to be several seamless swap outs each day with cleaning and engineering crews to keep the trolley, tracks, and grounds around running in a fulfilling order. And probably some ovens.

Stockholm syndrome is deeply unscientific. Can we stop perpetuating this drivel?

Seems like after the first time the infinite reincarnating ones get run over they should be released from their bindings and get off the track....

Isn't the main argument of Christianity that the second option was better than the first?