mycodesucks

I got a whole building full of people here ..

Don't be silly.

Parents writing that letter, while misguided, is still them trying to protect their child, and so has an element of selflessness, and their hearts are in the right place.

This is like him PERSONALLY threatening people for not being friends with him, which is way creepier and unsettling.

Maybe don't insult the people you're trying to represent at ALL, asshole.

Oh, absolutely. There are good reasons why that wouldn't be an option.

But those would get in the way of the joke, so I'm choosing to ignore them.

Possibly, but you know who has a history of surviving things that would kill any other crew member and has exhibited at least incredible radiation resistance even in that very same episode?

Also, it's very un-starfleet to consider one member of the crew more irreplaceable or valuable than any other, even if it is true.

I'm insulted. I have never made an effort at anything in my life.

Okay, I legitimately and seriously need to ask how.

How can a circuit court override a Supreme Court decision?

See, the thing about the 1+1+1 is that they can't all die at ONCE. Even moving at a reasonable clip, let's say that trolley kills say, one person a second. Two people per second already die anyway, so yes, we're increasing the mortality rate, but humanity can survive that, and statistically a lot of people wouldn't end up dying by trolley. It would SUCK that there's a chance you might wind up on the trolley and dead at any time, but dying is already a natural part of life and it happens to everyone at some point anyway, so there's nothing inherently STRANGE about adding a trolley death every second.

The 100 reincarnating people will be suffering FOREVER, repeatedly, with no reprieve or redemption, and the real kicker is all the other people in the other lane are dying ANYWAY, just as people always have, so it's not like you've really SAVED them - you've just not allowed the mortality rate to increase at the cost of eternal suffering for a few people. Doesn't seem like a good trade.

It's a more interesting question if we change it slightly and all of the infinite people are Wolverine, bub.

Is this an "Eventually, Kars stopped thinking" supposition? Because that's a valid possibility, but we can't know it for CERTAIN - nobody's ever been doing anything forever, and chronic pain seems to be painful at least on the timescales of decades....

This assumes the amount of excruciating pain and horror of being run over by a trolley before death is zero, and while I haven't been run over by a trolley personally, I'd have to imagine it's not fun.