Editing 2175: Flag Interpretation
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|Someone diverted a trolley to save five people by killing one important person. | |Someone diverted a trolley to save five people by killing one important person. | ||
|This is a reference to the {{w|Trolley problem}}, a well-known thought experiment in ethics: An out-of-control trolley is running toward five people who are on the tracks. If you do nothing, these five will be killed. However, you can trigger a switch that will divert the trolley onto a side track, where there is one person who would be killed. Which is the more ethical option? | |This is a reference to the {{w|Trolley problem}}, a well-known thought experiment in ethics: An out-of-control trolley is running toward five people who are on the tracks. If you do nothing, these five will be killed. However, you can trigger a switch that will divert the trolley onto a side track, where there is one person who would be killed. Which is the more ethical option? | ||
− | In this case, the important person was sacrificed, and so is commemorated by the usual custom of lowering the flag to half-mast. The small flags, which represent the | + | In this case, the important person was sacrificed, and so is commemorated by the usual custom of lowering the flag to half-mast. The small flags, which represent the non-important people, fly at full mast to indicate those people's continued survival. |
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|No flag on the pole | |No flag on the pole | ||
|The person who knows where the flag is stored at night died. | |The person who knows where the flag is stored at night died. | ||
− | |Presumably the flag-keeper died during the night, and nobody living knows where the flag is stored and can't seem to locate it to put it on the flagpole. Amusingly, this is not symbolic at all, being | + | |Presumably the flag-keeper died during the night, and nobody living knows where the flag is stored and can't seem to locate it to put it on the flagpole. Amusingly, this is not symbolic at all, being a natural consequence of the flag-keeper's death. |
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− | |Melted flagpole (title text) | + | |Melted flagpole (title-text) |
|Salvador Dalí died | |Salvador Dalí died | ||
− | |{{w|Salvador Dalí}} was a painter who was most famous for making | + | |{{w|Salvador Dalí}} was a painter who was most famous for making all the stuff in his paintings look "melted". [[Randall]] is saying that when he died, the flag-raisers melted the flagpoles to make it look like his paintings, and it took them months to do so. |
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