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24-10-2019, 10:55 AM | #1 | |||
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This one is pretty tough, tougher than I thought at first read
A trolley is running out of control down a track. In its path are five people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately, you could flip a switch, which will lead the trolley down a different track to safety. Unfortunately, there is a single person tied to that track. Should you flip the switch or do nothing?
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24-10-2019, 10:59 AM | #2 | |||
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either way your in the wrong. all you could do is what ever possible to trying and stop the train all together, even if there is 0.0001% of success. if you fail then oh well, at least you tried.
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24-10-2019, 11:03 AM | #3 | |||
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No that's cheating, you have to pick one option or the other, flick the switch or don't flick the switch
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24-10-2019, 11:16 AM | #4 | |||
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Are we sitting in the trolly?
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24-10-2019, 11:18 AM | #5 | |||
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24-10-2019, 11:21 AM | #6 | |||
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Leave it has it is as if you sent it down another track knowing it would hurt someone then you are responsible to whatever happens
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24-10-2019, 11:25 AM | #7 | |||
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Yeah I would leave it.
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24-10-2019, 11:35 AM | #8 | |||
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POW! BLAM!
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I'd let the trolley mow them all in half, and then mix and match the different body parts.
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24-10-2019, 11:45 AM | #9 | ||
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Depends who is on each track, e.g.
- I'd let 5 people adults die to save one child - I'd let 5 strangers die to save one friend - I'd let 5 friends die to save one family member But if we're assuming it's 6 random adult strangers, morally, yes I'd flip the switch and have 1 die rather than 5. Legally it's a different issue as I suspect actively flipping the switch would make you legally responsible for that person's death whereas doing nothing (other than trying, somehow, to get the train to stop) would not. |
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24-10-2019, 12:40 PM | #10 | |||
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Quand il pleut, il pleut
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...although 5 people would die.....I could not actively do anything that would take a life...
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24-10-2019, 12:42 PM | #11 | |||
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The other Shaun :)
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I’d keep flipping the switch just as the tracks begin to separate to try and derail the trolley. That way everyone lives
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24-10-2019, 01:01 PM | #12 | |||
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Oh no, I'm English
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There is a moral responsibility to make sure that we switch it to kill one person, although in practice flicking the switch would be far more difficult.
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24-10-2019, 01:01 PM | #13 | |||
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This Witch doesn't burn
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24-10-2019, 01:04 PM | #14 | |||
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So apparently, this is what a study on this dilemma concludes :
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24-10-2019, 01:07 PM | #15 | |||
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...that’s exactly it though, flicking that switch to cause a death would be an impossibility for me...even though I know it would lead to more deaths...
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24-10-2019, 01:10 PM | #16 | ||
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I also know I would if it was to save a loved one... I'd genuinely hit a button that would kill hundreds then. Though I know that's not moral. |
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24-10-2019, 01:11 PM | #17 | |||
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Oh no, I'm English
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Ammi West the child murderer
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24-10-2019, 01:13 PM | #18 | |||
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Yeah, if it were kids I probably would too. But what if it were kids on both tracks? 5 kids Vs 1?
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24-10-2019, 01:17 PM | #19 | |||
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If the trolley hit the first of the 5 people that body(a big burly body like Slims) it might stop it killing the other 4,so maybe Ide send it down the track with the 5 people tied to it.
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24-10-2019, 01:22 PM | #20 | |||
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...I’m going to assume that none of them were children because that would have been specified...?...is my thought process...obviously my thought processes are with a calm rationale...and not the chaos that would be the reality of it, so we never really know...my instinct tells me that I couldn’t actively do anything to take a life...and I’m assuming that wouldn’t be a loved one either because that would have been specified...?...that’s quite an important thing to add to the dilemma...
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24-10-2019, 01:24 PM | #21 | |||
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24-10-2019, 01:36 PM | #22 | |||
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...yeah that’s what I assumed in my thought process...plus I’m factoring our children as well because I think that would have been something that was specified...
...not quite the child murderer yet, Slim...steady on there and not so fast... |
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24-10-2019, 01:46 PM | #23 | ||
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In that case, the right moral choice would be to kill the one person, but most people won't do it.
You can amplify the effect the more you remove the person from the death... e.g, you're sat at a table opposite a stranger. In front of you, there's a gun, a document and a pen. You're given the choice to either sign the document - which will kill 5000 random strangers across the world (you'll never find out who they were or how they died) OR you can shoot the stranger in the room in the head. If you do nothing, you all die (the 5000, the stranger AND you). Vast majority of people sign the document. That's just how our instincts work, really... people aren't "really real" until you're looking them in the eye. Basically, that's how a lot of politicians operate every day. They'll sign a piece of paper that they know will kill thousands of people, but few could stomach looking one person in the eye and murdering them. |
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24-10-2019, 01:51 PM | #24 | |||
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self-oscillating
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i would let god decide
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24-10-2019, 01:53 PM | #25 | |||
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