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What the trolly problem actually looks like
(lemmy.world)
My favorite one lol 
I remember this one with the caption “but if you stop it it’s going to be unfair for the people that already died”
Gotta love a suttle shame that caption has
This is literally ~~1984~~ COVID19
Literally all Capitalism
Accurate
An impossible decision.
You are an omniscient and all powerful God.
You create someone who is tortured and killed in a war at the age of 2.
You are a benevolent God because you helped that person experience the full spectrum of what life has to offer.
The 2 year old did not acknowledge your supreme authority because you did not give it a developed brain to grasp the concept and so they burn in hell for eternity, never able to fully comprehend what happened to them. Their entire existence is one of suffering and unexplainable agony.
You are a benevolent God.
Praise be
"God is good, therefore everything God does is good."
If god is all-knowing, he knew I would grow up an atheist. If god is all-powerful, he hasn't done anything about it. So I guess he's okay with it.
Oh, no, it would be wrong for him to do anything to interfere with your free will! But it's totally fine for his worshipers to do so.
Because you uhh, you have to make the choice? Even though God, if the being is all knowing, and all powerful, could set up conditions for every human being that ever existed to come to choose tobelieve in him, should he actually desire that.
So either, he doesn't desire it, can't do it, or doesn't know.
If he doesn't desire it, it doesn't matter. If he can't do it or doesn't know, then he is not God, and it doesn't matter.
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I took a quick poll of people tied to the tracks, and a majority reported that:
- I'm good.
- Please get us off these tracks.
Hahaha, thank you.
- He’ll take me when it’s my time.
- He works in mysterious ways.
Plus, he also knew you wouldn't accept him even before he created you.
God only kills people he knows will be evil
Just remember next time you see a make a wish kid that they are literally worse than Hitler
Dude blood cancer kids are worse than Hitler. Do you know how many times I'm watching Rick and Morty and I get interrupted by the make a wish foundation? It's infuriating.
I mean, Hitler was a bad guy but he did kill Hitler!
/s
Holy fuck that post is dripping with sarcastic and it still hurt to write.
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Didn't Hitler killed a lot of gay men? How many gay men has the make a wish kid killed? Check mate, Atheists.
I brought a question like this up in a church. It was not well received.
No, because you define "evil" as "against your will", and "good" as "anything you do".
Stop judging me by how I play Rollercoaster Tycoon >:(
Plus, as said omnipotent creator you leave only highly questionable 'evidence' of your existence
If we're talking about Yahweh specifically, he even left evidence that shows he went from a god in a pantheon to the current supposed "one and only" god.
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You forgot the "they accept you as the creator, and you let the trolley hit anyway"
It's just part of Your plan
Then condemn them to endless suffering and torment if they question you.
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He'S nOt EvIl, He SaVeS yOu!
if only it was just death by trolley... but no no.. ists actually burning for the eternity in a fiery pit of lava and ash, you know, love.
Is the real riddle about not being powerful enough or smart enough to spell omniscient correctly?
That's what happen when you make up some entity to be responsible for everything including suffering and shits
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