Alright here we go everyone’s favorite ethical dilemma is here on the forums :star_struck
In the trolley problem, you are given roughly the following situation:
A trolley is hurtling out of control down it’s tracks and can’t slow down. On the tracks in front of it are five people who won’t be able to get out of the way in time. If you pull a lever, the trolley will go down another track with only one person on it.
The important things to remember about this scenario for the discussion are that if you don’t intervene, 5 people will die, and if you do only 1 person will.
So, what do you do?
Is your answer different if you have to push someone onto the tracks to slow down the trolley before it hits those 5 people? @Discussions
So either way, you’re a murderer. It’s hard. But then there’s another addition where the one person is someone you know and love, like a grandparent. If you would previously have pulled the lever, would you still?
Either way you’d be a murderer. If you do nothing, you’d have deniability and probably wouldn’t go to prison, but die knowing you could’ve saved 5 lives, if you do something either way you go to prison. I would just simply not get myself into this situation, but if I have to answer the question I’d kill the one
I mean doing nothing is an option
From a legal standpoint, it’s almost certainly better to not get involved, but that’s why we don’t let laws dictate morality
Yeah, it would be really hard to have something like that
However, what do you think about the case where you’re a doctor who could save the lives of 5 people by killing 1 unsuspecting patient and harvesting their organs?
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