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What is your answer to the trolley problem?

You see a runaway trolley moving toward five tied-up (or otherwise incapacitated) people lying on the tracks. You are standing next to a lever that controls a switch. If you pull the lever, the trolley will be redirected onto a side track and the five people on the main track will be saved. However, there is a single person lying on the side track. You have two options:

1, Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track.
2. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.

Which is the more ethical option?
SW-User
I do nothing. It's not my responsibility to save anyone and I'm not doing an action I know will kill someone by my hand as a result of my action. Those 5 people, while their deaths are regrettable are not my fault.
TheProphet · M
Finish my drink and get in my car and drive to work. Fate will decide the outcome.
ChampagneOnIce · 51-55, F
I’d pull the lever, and when the trolley has it’s front wheels on the other track, I’d pull the lever again causing the track to switch again and the trolley to fall off the track and crash without killing anyone.
Chaoshead · 22-25, M
Pull the lever, obviously. Just letting 5 people die while standing there singing "It wasn't me" like Shaggy doesn't mean you're not culpable.
TheProphet · M
@Chaoshead And then you're arrested for murder for deliberately killed a person.
VSonMe · 56-60, M
I've seen this question before. It is really tough. I think I have to go with 2 on the basis that 5 lives saved is of greater value than a single life ceteris paribus.
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
Two is the most ethical option.

Granted that A ) murder is unethical
Granted that B ) knowingly choosing not to act is a choice and thus leaves you with responsibility for the outcome

Option two is four less murders on your hands than option one.

 
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