Aiden · 12 answers · 3mo
What would you do in The Trolley Problem? Would you interfere by pulling the lever and kill 1 person to save 5, but be directly responsible For their death - Or do nothing, and let the five people die?
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What would you do in The Trolley Problem? Would you interfere by pulling the lever and kill 1 person to save 5, but be directly responsible For their death - Or do nothing, and let the five people die?
the tricky part abt the trolley problem is that either way, in some capacity, you are responsible for the ones who die and the ones who don't. even if you don't touch the lever, that's making a conscious decision not to interfere and therefore preventing the one person from being saved. i know the whole point of the trolley problem is to ask if one person's life could be valued over anyone else's but i don't think of it that way, to me it's more about the consciousness of your choices and the differences between being a bystander and interfering, which in this particular case, are not vastly different. in the end there's no right answer but as for me personally i thjnk i wouldn't be able to bring myself to pull the lever but either way i would still have the same amount of blood on my hands
im killing all 5 people im flipping the switch and then flipping it again last minute
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