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A Psychopath Solves Absurd Trolley Problems
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- Published on Mar 7, 2026
- Oh no! A trolley problem is about to hit you in the face
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If you pull the lever just right, you can drift the trolley. Did you know they used to call RT the Drift King back in college?
MULTI TRACK DRIFTING!
MULTI-TRACK DRIFT KING!
*free bird starts playing*
New high score achieved
The only correct answer
They used to call him the Trolly King back in college.
Multi-track drifting!!!
back in philosophy class
RT game stands for Rolly Trolley Game
Seems more likely they'd call him the Problem King instead
Oh no! A trolly is heading towards 5 people. You can pull the lever, it won't change the tracks but it will remind you that they used to call Daniel the Drift King back in college.
Pull
Pull
PULL THE GOTDANG LEVER
Pull
*pulls lever*
Did you know they used to call him the “Drift King” Back in college?
The M in RT stands for Morals
None in sight.
@PixelHeartMusicexactly
But there is no M...oh.
ruMble tuMble
The M in RTGa*m*es??
2:45 absolutely hilarious that he didn’t save the first group, but now that they are asleep, he decides to save them. He just chose the option that would cause the most pain.
Big Brain time.
This is like a nightmare youd have right before an ethics exam
This game should be the final boss of ethics exams
you'd*
@JorgetePanetethis is the internet. most people dont bother using apostrophes here
@melodyMonger413 or they use too damn many of them
@techpriestemilyw"h"a"t" d"o y"o"u m"e"a"n?
0:30
"I don't want my fingerprints on this"
While your hand is already touching the lever
PULL THE LEVER, KRONK
WROng leverrrrr
@JessInThe999 *splat_sfx*
@JessInThe999Why do we even HAVE that lever?
@redanaku667OK, why she even HAVE that lever?
i can't believe RT is playing absurd trolley problem again. he might finally hit that multi-track drift this time and end philosophy once and for all
He has to! They used to call him the drift king back in college
The Drift King's Trolley Problem:
The trolley is heading down the track. On one side are 5 people watching it, and on the other is somebody doing repairs on the empty track. Everyone is safe. However, if you pull the lever just right, the trolley will jump between the two tracks, drifting along and killing everyone on both sides.
Do you do nothing and leave everyone in peace, or do you show everyone why they used to call you the drift king back in college?
"Road traffic laws, prepare to be ignored!"
"Jesse, we need to drift"
@Cadence_7w7 there's no traffic laws against drifting , they never specified the precise amount of grip you're allowed or required to use on your tires.
@monad_tcpmy best guess is it could be classified as reckless endangerment?
@Datboss1011 probably, unless you invoke the sacred rule of "no cop no crime"
RT: doesn't pull the lever to sacrifice 1 person to save 5
Also RT: pulls the lever sacrificing 1 awake person who feels pain to save 5 people who won't
Simple, he always chooses the option that causes the biggest amount of pain.
Caught me by surprise too, and am happy to see someone already pointed it out.
ACTUAL ANSWER INCOMING! TAKE COVER!
I mean yeah, one is a joke the other is his actual answer.
RT: wants to kill 5 people
The game: “but they won’t feel pain!”
RT: “aw, youtube, guess I’ll kill one guy instead”
It's not right unless they *know* they die in vain.
“I don’t care about these people, I just hate the Mona Lisa”-Benjamin Franklin
Optics are not looking good on this one, Benji
The little "wahey" at 7:20 is truly blessed. Incredible
Right?
The lobsters will be fine. They have armour and are short enough to hang out under the trolley without getting hit by it.
I love how more people were willing to sacrifice five people to save the Mona Lisa than people who were willing to sacrifice a cat to save five lobsters.
It probably has something to do with how most people would have more personal experiences with a cat than the Mona Lisa. Like, this cat reminds me of the living beloved creature I or a friend own, of course I want to save it! Uh, the Mona Lisa? You mean, that famous painting I’ve never seen in my life? I have no issues sacrificing that ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ
i think it's because of people trying to stack kill counts, the mona lisa has nothing to do with it
@niftyskyblue Lobsters are insects of the sea. Lobsters are tasty. We kill lobsters all the time.
The Mona Lisa one surprised me but only a little because I feel like the point of art is that it's made by people. Without people, who is there to paint? I know we're living in a "property > people" era at the moment so it's not like I was truly fall-out-of-my-seat shocked, but damn.
the mona lisa sucks, its only famous because it got stolen and it took a while for anyone to notice
art student here! dont give a crap about the mona lisa xD
5:45 To be fair, the baby in the blender was purchased by 3 people, so it's a timeshare.
They have joint custody of the baby. In a blender.
Dark Souls? Shouldn't it have been Death Stranding?
8:11 I thought there was a programming error here but then I realised the guy had more than 50 years of his life left and now I appreciate that attention to detail.
The trolley that makes you old.
@TemplarWardenwhat? There is no trolley that makes you old.
@thekingoffailure9967 The trolley that makes you old.
@thekingoffailure9967 The trolley that makes you old.
@thekingoffailure9967 The trolley that makes you old.
"I don't even care about the people, I just hate the Mona Lisa." this is the trolley problem solutions we deserve. this philosophy shit is easy!
1:47 they called him the Proletariat Elected Representative back in college
This is the weirdest balatro mod yet.
RT didn't realise back then, but there's actually a 3rd option for the Trolley Problem; *Tokyo Drift*
How could the Drift King not know this?!
And he calls himself the drift king..
It isn't an RT video (or any video, really) without StickMaster500
Of all people, how did he not think of that?
M-multi track drifting?!
" How to be a menace" - a totally normal guide on philosophy by RTgames, aka the drift king
Oh no, a trolley is headed towards the drift king, you could pull the lever but it would instead go towards drift daddy, what do you do?
So it does nothing? :(
Pull the lever halfway to multi-track drift the trolley into both of them. The strongest drifter will prevail, leading to the destruction of the others.
@MadocComadrin Isn't the strongest drifter in that case the trolley, since _it_ is drifting?
They used to call him a psychopath, back in collage.
The T in RT stands for Trolly
Man’s pulling that level like he pulled the gearshift back in college
Earnestly the funniest variation of the drift king joke here
"We're going to pull, what I like to call, a Final Fantasy VII" had me cackling!
I don't get it?
@Sam-gs8iw Ecoterrorism.
@Sam-gs8iw the main characters of final fantasy 7 were a group of eco terrorists fighting against the shinra company, an energy company that was siphoning the life force of the planet for electricity.
@Sam-gs8iw Ecoterrorism
@Sam-gs8iw The plot of FF7 involves joining a group of eco-terrorists that attack the Shinra megacorporation for using the literal lifestream of the planet for energy. The game is a heavy commentary on environmentalism.
if you pull the lever the trolley will hit unlimited bacon but no games, if you dont pull the lever the trolley will hit games, infinite games
but no games...
@jonaut5705 wont the bacon be techicaly resptorable just need dirty parts cut off, while games well dose anyone besides 100s in cartmentalization know how to put back togeather cartrige and disc and hardrive and solidstate drive frabments, that is from little tiney chunks, never seen someone BUILD A COMPUTER (from scratch) but only seen someone "build a computer" via allready paid for allready-existing parts.
7:36 - W Corp's entrance exams have been getting tougher ever since that _one_ train didn't show up after it's ten seconds.
the R in Rt game stands for "rip space"
Yes I have been so afraid…
Can not say I was expecting what (I think??) is a project moon reference in an RTGame comments section
@finnybrooks8068 Yes I have been, so distant, consistently indifferent
He HATES philosophy
Just like how he HATES Rinothy Penrosinite, his NEMESIS, and runs them over at 7:51.
Honestly considering what happened in traintrack simulator like 4 years ago. I should had expected the trolley solution.
Anyone know how the mystery box question affects the final score? If you want the highest number do you need to replay until you hit the 1 in 10?
And what about the situation where you lost your glasses? We don't quite know if the one side had one and the other had five.
Oh no! A trolley is heading towards five people. You can pull the lever to divert it to the other track, killing one person, however you won’t ever see it go through the totally sick loop-da-loop that is just past the five people.
At the big ol' age of 30, RT has forgotten that he's played this game already and is having a whale of a time playing it again, as if this is his first time.
Early onset dementia is one hell of a drug.
Last time RT only had a kill count of 66 so he is getting better at the game
I think a lot about the time I got one of my teachers to play this back in highschool and they chose to run over the cat to "save the lobsters for dinner"
Wow, can't believe RT solved philosophy forever
6:45 If you pull the lever you will get sued for damages.
I'm honestly surprised RT didn't go the full anarchy route.
great choice, RT. rich people got rich by lying. you were not going to see that $500K
They used to call him the drifting king back in College
Drifted so hard it killed everyone in the Trolley Problem
7:03
The Egg, btw. It's a short story by The Martian's Andy Weir.
I think the real solution to the Trolley Problem is what gets top billing. If pulling the lever offs a guy then that’s a negative action and the blood would be on your hands, leaving it alone would give you the shield of ‘I didn’t have anything to do with this.’ If pulling the lever saves the 5 people then that’s a positive action, even if it’s at the expense of one guy you can tell yourself you did a good deed. Naturally there’s different ways to mix this question up such as who’s ties up (the whole premise of this video) and the method of switching targets (ex. the off switch is inside a guy and you need to look him in the eye before you ‘remove’ it), but I think simply changing the wording can change the outcome immensely simply by making you feel like you’re saving lives or taking a life.
Yeah, a lot of people say the trolley problem is obvious until you rephrase it.
Say you're a surgeon. You're currently operating on a patient, and they will live.
However, you take a peak at their organs and realize if you harvest them, you can save five people who are also in the emergency wing. Do you do it?
I think this one's better because it more accurately displays the intent
@isaac3140 It's more than just context, it's about how presentation matters. Even with the same exact scenario you can easily get 2 trolly problems.
You are a surgeon. You learn that a patient's organs are compatible with 5 others. You can choose to let him die and those 5 others will be saved but by ignoring him his blood will be on your hands.
You are a surgeon. You learn that a patient's organs are compatible with 5 others. You could successfully use his organs to save those 5 if you simply ignored him. His death would be sad but you would heroically prevent 5 other tragedies.
On one hand you can either do your duty and the 5 you can't help were out of your hands to begin with or you can CHOSE for someone to die, making their death your responsibility. On the other hand you can save 5 people even if one person ends up dying or you can CHOSE to forsake them for a single person and regret not saving them. I don't think people would answer these two questions the same way.
The thing with the trolley problem is that it has no “good” solution, just different answers.
@isaac3140 I'm going to be pedantic here, since this comment thread is taking the problem seriously.
That is in fact a significantly different form of the problem, though typically presented as a subsequent dilemma for contrast to probe ethical reasoning. It is not actually a rephrasing, it is a different problem that is similar in form and that is essential to its function.
The general consensus of ethicists, most people, and the original author of the problem (Philippa Foot) is that pulling the lever is the most moral action here ("the right answer") whereas in the "fat man" or "surgeon" variations inaction is the moral position, despite the same "math" happening. Much of this comes down to agency of additional parties, as in the lever scenario only you have agency and yours lies only in your response to a tragic accident unfolding due to some nefarious evildoer that has tied everyone to the tracks. In the other scenarios you are directly causing harm to others that they would not be experiencing entirely through your own agency.
Disentangling the differences in the scenarios, seeing that they are not "rephrasing" the same problem but distinct iterations of a class of utilitarian decision making problems is supposed to be the whole point. In fact, in the trolley problem pulling the lever was intended to be an "obviously correct" action leading to the more complex problems, but many Americans refuse to take it which is itself interesting (related to a hyper-individualist society, social norms about selfishness and guilt, or similar explanations).
TL:DR This is not actually true. It is a related, but distinct, iteration and examining the differences is the whole point.
@cyclic_infinity wow, this is very in depth, thank you! I totally agree.
Did you see that video of a teacher having his two toddlers solve the trolley problem. The first brother put the hostages in one area, but he ram them all. Meanwhile, the sister saved all 6 by putting the one one guy in another track.
We teach our sons violence so young
Markiplier: "You know, I mean...the cat can just move out of the way..."
A Cat has nine lives, thats the easiest Lobster save of MY life!
2:25 did you just call lobsters fish?
“Fish” is a fake word anyways that references nothing meaningful scientifically and just means “water animal” more or less
@thekingoffailure9967 fish is a scientific classification in the animal kingdom though, it has a meaning
RT canceled over a lobster controversy
@thekingoffailure9967 even though there isn't an agreed upon definition of fish it is almost always agreed upon that fish are at the very least all vertabrates. There is not a single scientist that would call arthropods fish
Does it live in the water? If not, not a fish. If yes, does it come up to breathe? If yes, not a fish. If no, fish.
2:15 im pulling the lever. I dont want my dinner getting messed up.
I'm NOT pulling the lever for the same reason
4:43 random Joseph Anderson raid
Is it possible to drift the trolley onto both tracks?
3:49 You just mentioned one of my favorite RPGs ever and now it will never leave my mind that you could play it
The Drift King drifts the trolley by pulling the lever at just the right time to go on both tracks and get the highest score of hits possible
6:16 I’d definitely argue that this was actually the right choice, surprisingly enough. The average amount of people killed in either scenario is 1, but what’s important about the decision is what the chance that anyone dies AT ALL. With a coin flip, there’s a greater chance that a loss of any amount of lives will occur than with a 10% chance.
Good thinking on level 15. The elderly folks are probably close to death anyway, so in a way you got all of them.
How old is this footage if chat called him Prince Charles XD
Gotta love how my madlad method of killing as many people as possible isn’t as rare as I thought
you know he hates the mona lisa when he doesn't say youtube
The fact the only statistic it gives you at the end is kill count allows us to infer that the end goal of philosophy is either to have the highest kill count or to have the lowest kill count.
why do i feel like ive seen this video before
he did these in a stream where he just browsed the internet around a year ago
@cat63475 omg thank you i thought I was going crazy
Lobsters are not fish! They are crustaceans.
I'm genuinely surprised that 3/4 of people would choose a baby over 5 elderly people
2:25 Dan... Lobsters are Crustaceans. Not fish.
RT strikes me as a Wario kind of person. He'll do a good thing, but only if he has to for a completely separate goal that he actually cares about lol
by the gods there’s a psychopath on the loose
0:50
Oh no! My credit card debt!
the funniest thing is that he first chooses to kill the 4 people, but then LATER chooses to kill the one person when the only thing that's changed is that the one person will feel more pain, so RT is genuinely just trying to maximise suffering.
3:10 This is kind of a big philosophical argument that speaks for assisted end of life, which is a really fucking important thing right now. It's awesome to see 76% of people agree!
Skill issues, I'd just save both
I do wish it went a bit longer so the trolley sent into the future could show up again
Trolleys are super good at telling realistic stories, so many trolleys everywhere.
my favorite part about the Co2 one is that without the trolly these people would have to drive, meaning more carbon in the air.
7:52 I cant believe RT killed 🅱️in 🅱️enrose in cold blood like that
I can't believe Dan solved all of philosophy.
oh no! A trolly is heading towards 100 people. Pulling the lever does nothing. Choice is futile. You can only watch.
*CRUSTACEANS,* DAN!
Turn the right track… into the left track
5:57 wait this was 3 years ago
yeah, we're all aging at the speed of light now...
The crazies thing about this video is RT calling Lobsters, "fish". They are crustaceans man!
3:52 i wanna see a xenoblade one plyathrough ow
Hell yeah
On the baby one I was literally going "Pull the Lever Kronk" I will never forget the baby blender lmao
1:11 really? In this economy?
I absolutely would. Then I would be like hey, I had to give up my entire life saving to do that, mind giving me some cash back? I could probably make it all back and then some😂
@WingedEspeon"no"
Life saving. Did you mean crippling debt
Finally another absurd trolley problems video from a RUclipsr I have seen before
I wanna know how many people would sacrifice to never see an ad again on any screen.
It's not about... the money. It's about... sending a message.
1:56 “…It’s about sending a message.”
Multi-track Drift King!
Nice to see you get (back) to this.
Seeing one trolley mash 3 other trolleys into just juice in an instant is something else
At the end they should give you an alignment chart reading like “youre chaotic evil based on your choices”
XENOBLADE CHRONICLES MENTIONED!! PEAK MENTIONED!! EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY IT NOW
The multiple seconds of silence at the start followed by “I mean, if you’ve seen my content” just really sets the tone for the rest of the video
The Mona Lisa bit made me laugh more than I expected
7:14 RT has found enlightment thus ending the cycle of samsara
6:20 I like how RT's "I'm a gambling man" suggests that he's angling for the less likely option and wants to kill 10 people
Some of these are shitposts and others are genuinly intriguing philosophical inquiries
"solves" is putting it strongly
Exactly what I needed today, thanks
7:20 I love this noise
Multi-Track Drift King
2:02 RT turning into Luigi Mangione
as he should fr