There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options:
1) Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track.
2) Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.
Which is the more ethical option? Or, more simply: What is the right thing to do?
Replying to:Ralph (Developer)There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks
this question is bullshit however
the dilemma is whether or not you want to take diliberate action, as in, option 2 – you went out of your way to change the course the train was taking thus in an indirect sense – you killed one person … is that really the moral thing to do?
however it’s bullshit because it minimizes the fact that you are STILL taking a deliberate action in NOT pulling the lever – which by the same rules means in an indirect sense – you would kill five people
2021-07-10 13:58:25 UTC 
There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options:
1) Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track.
2) Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.
Which is the more ethical option? Or, more simply: What is the right thing to do?
this question is bullshit however
the dilemma is whether or not you want to take diliberate action, as in, option 2 – you went out of your way to change the course the train was taking thus in an indirect sense – you killed one person … is that really the moral thing to do?
however it’s bullshit because it minimizes the fact that you are STILL taking a deliberate action in NOT pulling the lever – which by the same rules means in an indirect sense – you would kill five people
Option 1 then stomp the person on the other track’s head in to make it fair
https://youtu.be/B75FWzjZ_qw?t=3