Apocalypse: I watch a survival game in a safe house

The cold voice of the girl in red reached his ears.

"You passed."

……

In the same valley.

This time, the person standing on the train was Yang Xinxin, who was wearing a black combat uniform and had long seaweed-like hair.

"Faced with this kind of question, what would you choose?"

The girl in red asked calmly.

Yang Xinxin looked at the fork in the road that was getting closer and closer, but she knew very well that it was just an artificial illusion.

"There are only two choices, so the purpose of the test is not to see how the testee will act. Because there is no correct answer to the trolley problem."

"So, what you really want to test is the way the trial-taker answers questions."

She looked at the two forked roads ahead.

Pointing to the path with only one person, he said, "If I choose to sacrifice one life to save five, then this is the principle of maximizing utility, choosing to sacrifice the interests of a few in the collective to preserve the interests of the majority."

"But the biggest problem with the principle of maximizing utility is that such a completely equal relationship doesn't exist. If such a problem really existed, there would be a high probability that the six people would be unequal in status, position, wealth, and social relationships."

"In particular, the closeness of the relationship with the person making the choice is an important factor influencing the choice."

"For example, if there's a person tied up on a railway track, and that person is your father, and the five people next to you are your enemies, then the principle of maximizing utility no longer applies. Human selfishness is ineradicable."

After saying that, Yang Xinxin pointed forward again.

"If I choose not to turn the train, then it's in accordance with the principle of freedom, and human life should not be taken under this principle. Because all people are born free and equal, no one has the right to decide the life and death of another. Therefore, I have no right to take that person's life to achieve the so-called collective interest."

There was a gleam in the eyes of the girl in red, and she looked at Yang Xinxin with eyes full of admiration.

Even when facing a weak civilization, she still felt an unusual smell from Yang Xinxin.

It’s like when humans were breeding dog breeds, they discovered a breed called Border Collie.

It was wonder and admiration.

"So, if you need to make a choice, would you prefer the former or the latter?"

In fact, at this time, the girl in red had already given Yang Xinxin the go-ahead.

But she wanted to ask more, to see how the other party would respond.

Yang Xinxin did not give a direct answer to the question about the train, because she knew from the beginning that it was not the crux of the problem, but just a formal issue, just like Schrödinger's cat.

So she said: "How to make a choice? The question is actually about setting standards. Which should come first, collective interests or individual interests?"

"It depends on whether, when you propose a standard, you are willing to define it as a universal law."

She slowly spread out her fair palms and looked straight at the girl in red.

"That is to say, whether you choose the former or the latter, it must be based on all circumstances. Even when you are on both railways, you will still abide by the rules."

Having said that, there is no need to say more.

Because there is no correct answer to this question itself, and what the girl in red wants is to understand the cognitive and comprehension abilities of the creatures in the civilization where the trial-taker lives.

She rarely smiled at Yang Xinxin.

“Interesting perspective.”

There was no need to continue the next experiment, and the girl in red directly gave Yang Xinxin a ruling of approval.

……

The problem came to Zhang Yi.

The girl in red stood beside Zhang Yi and said to him, "What do you want to choose now?"

"Should we divert the train, sacrificing one person to save five lives? Or should we allow the train to continue on its way, killing the five people ahead without making any changes?"

At this moment, the voices of people on the two roads also sounded in Zhang Yi's mind.

The person on the road with the five people said, "It's a good deal to exchange one person's life for the lives of the five of us. If you do nothing, you will just watch us die. Now you see, it has become related to you. You can't pretend you don't know anything."

The man on the road also said: "I should not have died. If you change the trajectory of the train, you will have murdered me."

Zhang Yi frowned, paused for at least a second, and then pulled the joystick decisively without hesitation.

The train turned in the middle and headed towards another road.

Those tied up on that road were crushed to death.

Seeing Zhang Yi's decisiveness, the girl in red quickly changed the scene.

At this time, Zhang Yi was standing on the bridge. A train was coming at high speed in the distance, and he had to choose whether to push the person in front of him onto the track to stop the train from moving.

This time, Zhang Yi chose to do nothing.