Dilemmas poll
May. 17th, 2002 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothYou are sitting by a railway junction, and you see a train approaching rapidly. You also see - oh no! - some children on the tracks!
You cannot stop the train, nor clear the tracks in time. The only thing you can do is decide which track the train goes down - if you do nothing, six children will certainly be killed on one track. If you chose to throw a switch, two children will be killed on the other.
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You cannot stop the train, nor clear the tracks in time. The only thing you can do is decide which track the train goes down - if you do nothing, six children will certainly be killed on one track. If you chose to throw a switch, two children will be killed on the other.
[Poll #34479]
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Date: 2002-05-17 07:11 am (UTC)The first one is the one I find the hardest - it'd be easy to say 'save four of the six', but it's rather harder to chose to kill two people who would not otherwise be killed. Is it harder than letting six people die when you could save them? Argh!
In practice, most drivers swerve to avoid hitting cats or dogs, even if that means crashing into something else.