By the way, are YOU a GOOD PERSON? | Harvard Moral Dilemma

Do you know the trolley car riddle? Where you must choose between 5 people or 1 person on a railroad track. Well, today we're going more in-depth than any other youtube videos I've seen so far. Exploring the fat man dilemma, the doctor, and organ transplant surgeon dilemma.
Professor Michael Sandel from Harvard University asked new law students whether morality is a real thing. He asked them whether the idea of totalitarianism is sound or do the methods in which you achieve them matter.
Professor Michael Sandel teaches courses on justice, societal philosophy and other amazing courses you should check out. Its all online for free and all the questions I ask are from his lectures at Harvard. The amount of philosophy that's embedded in the trolley car dilemma is absolutely insane.

Time:
0:18 Trolley Car Riddle: If you were a trolley car operator, would you change your lane to kill 1 person instead of 5?
1:16 Fat Man Dilemma: If you were outside of the trolley car and the same situation happened, would you push a fat man onto the tracks to stop the car?
3:08 Doctor Dilemma: If you were a doctor and 5 mildly injured patients with 1 severely injured patient come, who would you save?
3:46 Surgeon Dilemma: Would you steal five organs from one innocent man to save five patients?

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[dom-xtpt]

**reads title**
**chuckles a bit**
“No.”

[yoonseomg]

"then i wouldn't stop at this murder, i'd keep going!" Stephen- 2017

[crispybanana]

"By the way, are you a good person?"

Why's Hosuh here? Of course he is

[KingSaysHello]

So, in my psychology class, we’re learning about how humans develop ethics and morals. Let me just say I quite literally jumped out of my seat when I saw we were watching a DanPlan video as one of the videos for class.

[-itzizumi-uwu]

Moral lesson of the video: Don't take a nap at the hospital

[Andionschannel]

I love this contrast of funny chatting and serious and intelligent brainstorming in your videos. Paired with the cartoon style it makes them so entertaining!

[aurianemalvesin]

4:23 "Lawsuit"! The only thing between Stephen and mass murder XD

[fridasophiaaaa]

If you just need a simple push, then he's not that fat
KILLED ME

[francies]

The real question how is the one without a heart alive

[cffee]

So
The trolley cart situation at the start

I have an answer


*why the hell would there be workers on an active trolley cart rail*

[corn]

The real question is: WHY TF DOES A HEALTHY GUY TAKE A NAP IN THE HOSPITAL

[ACECLAN]

“If I am to chose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all”

[blackbeast]

Stephen: 1 persons life is less valuable then 5 persons lives

Also stephen: how dare you value that 5 lives over 1 life

[howltertrash]

1:12 if it is KKK, I would keep going STRAIGHT

[bleuming]

"This is Canada.. WHERE ARE ALL THE OTHER DOCTORS?!"

[robert]

I was laughing so hard at 4:21 "You can get away with everything." and the responce was "Well, I wouldnt stop with just one murder.. I would keep going.." That had me rolling in hysterics...

[andrew-paulclements]

The correct answer is tokyo drift the trolly to kill all 6

[cold.raviolis]

A teacher once asked us the first question the other way around.
So you're driving towards the one person but plot twist: the one person is someone you know and like.

[fluffystuff]

Wait, if I have time to turn, don't the workers have time to move?

[aldenstromberg]

I think that the biggest difference in the situations is that there is always an objectively better choice to save the 5 people over the 1, but in the doctor and fat guy situations, you would be making someone else's decision. If it is set in stone that you must make the decision, you can relatively guiltlessly sacrifice the one, but if the one still has agency, it feels wrong to choose for them.