No, you’re reading it wrong. The trolley destroys what it runs over. An easy way to imagine it instead of money’s say property. You have 4 people on one line, or your nice shiny car on another. If you choose the people over the car, you’ve killed 4 people just to keep your car. In like vein, this rich person can either destroy potential profits but save lives, or he can choose to save the profit over the lives of multiple people.
I don’t see how your version works: it would be destroying both.
Huschke’s version could work if the rich guy wants to destroy money that isn’t his in order to make own money more valuable, like I’m pretty sure was the plot of the movie Goldfinger.
Also I guess the green dude blew up the mint shortly before this happened so destroyed money can’t just be replaced.
No, you’re reading it wrong. The trolley destroys what it runs over. An easy way to imagine it instead of money’s say property. You have 4 people on one line, or your nice shiny car on another. If you choose the people over the car, you’ve killed 4 people just to keep your car. In like vein, this rich person can either destroy potential profits but save lives, or he can choose to save the profit over the lives of multiple people.
I don’t see how your version works: it would be destroying both.
Huschke’s version could work if the rich guy wants to destroy money that isn’t his in order to make own money more valuable, like I’m pretty sure was the plot of the movie Goldfinger.
Also I guess the green dude blew up the mint shortly before this happened so destroyed money can’t just be replaced.