Trolley Problem


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A hypothetical moral dilemma:
(1) If person A allows a speeding trolley to continue along its path—i.e., does not act—multiple people will be killed
(2) If person A instead causes one person’s death—i.e., does act—multiple people are saved; therein lies the dilemma: passively allow multiple deaths, or actively kill one—i.e., commit homicide—but save many
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Sometimes while I'm driving to a store--well, Aunt Ava drives while I listen to music on my phone--I think about my philosophy class last spring, which I actually liked and kept attending after I'd quit the rest, and this thing we learned about called the Trolley Problem.
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In the most famous trolley problem of all, Thomson asks her readers to imagine pushing a fat man onto a track in order to stop a runaway trolley from running over five people.
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In the trolley problem, five workmen will be killed by a runaway trolley unless you move a track switch which will divert the train but kill one workman--or, in another version, push a fat man off a bridge stopping the trolley.
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