sleddy-problems
Explanation
The comic presents a classic trolley problem scenario, but reframed in a fantasy/medieval RPG setting. The setup reads: "Scenario: You are in a runaway sled headed toward Grothmir the Elder." The character Grothmir is described as a "Goal-Lord of Souls" who has enslaved souls from the questioner's village and is prepared for the sled.
The alternative: "By changing course, you can run over Brin, a gold-souled cherub who tends children, but Grothmir's magic and doom implement would be destroyed." The twist comes when the person being tested says, "I too am a philosopher."
The humor comes from how the classic trolley problem -- a genuine ethical dilemma designed to have no easy answer -- has been rigged with such cartoonishly obvious moral stakes that there is no real dilemma at all. One option is an evil soul-enslaving overlord who is prepared for the attack anyway, and the other is an innocent cherub who cares for children. By making the "dilemma" so lopsided, the comic satirizes how philosophy thought experiments are sometimes presented as more difficult than they actually are, or how people try to make simple moral questions seem impossibly complex. The respondent declaring "I too am a philosopher" suggests they see through the artificial complexity and recognize it as a poorly constructed thought experiment.