People Face A Terrifying Moral Dilemma

“Then I’m a murderer. Right?”

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[thesheepthatwentmooo]

Why the fuck are so many people hanging out on train tracks....?

[PabloBrooksX]

I'd scream "GET OFF THE TRACKS". Problem solved.

[hshs]

Well lets face it either way you're getting fired

[enchaentaed]

I wouldn't touch the lever whatsoever. Because if you move it, you're a murderer. Yell out to them. If it doesn't work, you tried. You can't do much.

[remboii]

I'd tell all of them to get the frick off of the train tracks.

[geneviever]

If I worked there i wouldn't let people be on the track unless they are working, and if that was the case I would still yell at them to get off the fucking track

[rightfulfuture]

what the hell are these people doing on the track

*edit* jesus Christ man, just why

[kimmirae]

scene1: get off
scene2: the god damm
scene3: track!!!

[elmateo]

How far away is the lever? Do I have to stand up to go pull it?

[Lemn]

I see a lot of people missing the point-
You can't create an option. You either HAVE to pull the lever or HAVE to let it kill the five people. No risking your own life, no yelling for the people to move. That being said, given no other option, what would you do?
(By the way, turning away is the same as letting the train hit the five people. You are the one in control of the situation.)

[FullOfMalarky]

pull the lever halfway, making the trolley jam right there,

[lorc.]

It's interesting to see how quickly people's minds changed once someone they loved were thrown into the equation. It's easy to pick choosing five people because of emotional disassociation. You don't know them, therefore you don't feel too terrible about killing them. But someone who you know and love dearly? It changes everything

[STFUFuck]

Unless those people were bounded or tied to the tracks, they're perfectly capable of escaping unless they are blind.

[geneviever]

I would yell to them to get off the track

[FluffleOW]

If you keep pressing the lever, it'll probably jam the tracks inbetween and the cart will just fly into the middle part and crash, saving both parties.

[laylas]

When you were just watching The Good Place and Chidi is starting to wear off on you 😂😂😂

[lancerd]

Pretty simple solution. Each life is unique, meaning that you cannot balance the death of a person with the saving of others since no matter how many lives you save, you can never bring back the one you ended or undo the consequences of that death. Additionally, you are not responsible for creating the situation where 5 people are in danger, therefore you have no duty to save them. That means you can if there's no other negative consequences of doing so, and you probably should, but you don't _have_ to. In the other scenarios killing the one person requires you to take an action, making you responsible for that one death. Inaction means things just play out as they would have if you weren't present and their deaths are on the train driver, not you. That means the only way you can avoid moral responsibility/guilt for someone's death is to do nothing.

[Julia-huff]

ULTIMATE: There's a train about to run into a wall, filled with everyone you care about and cares about you. You can switch the tracks, but there is a man standing there. The catch: this is the man who will cure cancer.

[holy]

Lmao don't switch track. If the train is suppose to go to that track, imagine switching the track then on the other track, there's a train coming, that would clash.

[emmalee]

so disappointed that they didn't go more in depth with the Trolley Problem. It's one of my favourites—I would have loved to see them struggle their way out of this one. What if instead of switching the track, you were beside it, and there is a very large person next to you. You know that if you pushed the person onto the track, it would stop the train, but that person would die while the five workers lived. What if one of those people were either someone very good, like Malala, or someone very bad, like Trump. Would the actions of that one save or condemn them all? What if the lone person was Malala or Trump? If you knew this fact, would you change your mind? What if you were a doctor in a hospital, and there are five people who need organ transplants with no donor. There is another person there, needing a blood check and that's all. Do you kill that person so the other five can get their organs? The same circumstance, but in completely different scenarios, seems so different in different views, doesn't it? Either way, it's one over five or five over one. In fact, what if it is no longer just one person? What if it was four? Still, there is the majority on the track the train is heading towards, but now not so much of one. Would your choice still be the same?