Feb 26 2012, 01:17 AM
QUOTE(slimey @ Feb 4 2010, 10:54 PM)
let's have a virtual moral test
here's the train moral dilemma:
1)Put yourself in this situation.
You are at a train track and see five people tied to the track ahead. A switch is in front of you which will divert the train, but as you look down you see a man is strapped to that track and will be killed. Is it permissible to flip the switch and save the five people at the expense of one?
2)Now imagine in order to save the five people, you have to push a stranger in front of the train to stop it. You know for certain it would stop the train in time to save the five people tied to the tracks. Is it permissible to push the man and save the five people at the expense of one?
i think that it's evil not to invent a security measure that will avoid such thing in the first placehere's the train moral dilemma:
1)Put yourself in this situation.
You are at a train track and see five people tied to the track ahead. A switch is in front of you which will divert the train, but as you look down you see a man is strapped to that track and will be killed. Is it permissible to flip the switch and save the five people at the expense of one?
2)Now imagine in order to save the five people, you have to push a stranger in front of the train to stop it. You know for certain it would stop the train in time to save the five people tied to the tracks. Is it permissible to push the man and save the five people at the expense of one?
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