If I’m reading this correctly, the alligator didn’t actually harm anyone EXCEPT by way of causing the plane crash.
So this would be kind of like a trolley problem except for the train has time to slow down before it hits the five people if you jump in front of it yourself.
Looking at RobinZ’s payoff matrix below, I can’t imagine how being on the crocodile side is actually worse than everyone running to the away side. It has to be a very small crocodile to fit into a carry on.
I want to know why someone didn’t just catch the croc so people would stop panicking. I’ve picked up a baby alligator before; the crocodile couldn’t have been that much bigger to get on the plane as described.
Panic is generally dangerous; people could have gotten killed by the scramble to escape the crocodile in any enclosed space, the fact that it was an airplane just made it worse.
If I’m reading this correctly, the alligator didn’t actually harm anyone EXCEPT by way of causing the plane crash.
So this would be kind of like a trolley problem except for the train has time to slow down before it hits the five people if you jump in front of it yourself.
Looking at RobinZ’s payoff matrix below, I can’t imagine how being on the crocodile side is actually worse than everyone running to the away side. It has to be a very small crocodile to fit into a carry on.
I want to know why someone didn’t just catch the croc so people would stop panicking. I’ve picked up a baby alligator before; the crocodile couldn’t have been that much bigger to get on the plane as described.
I suspect that the passengers didn’t realize that they were doing something dangerous when they all ran away from the crocodile at the same time.
Panic is generally dangerous; people could have gotten killed by the scramble to escape the crocodile in any enclosed space, the fact that it was an airplane just made it worse.