What do you do?

Poll - Total Votes: 8

Do nothing. Five people will die, but you won't be the direct cause of their deaths.

Switch the track. One person will die by your actions, but you will have spared five people.

You can only vote on one answer.

Ethical question: you are in a train yard, and a train is racing out of control down the tracks. There are five people tied to the track. You are too far away to free the people on the tracks, but you do have the controls that will switch the track that the train is on, sparing the five. Unfortunately, the train will hit one other person that is tied to the other track. Assume that switching the track or not switching the track are your only choices; you cannot intervene in any other way. Will you keep your hands clean by doing nothing, killing five and sparing one? Or will you condemn the one person to death in order to save the five?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

Darlingrose · 80-89, F

@lostinthe water, you are right,,there is no good answer to this question, I would guess for me it would have to do with my intention, if my intention was to save five people, that that would be my answer, even though I would grieve the loss of the one person. Better to grieve the loss of one than the loss of five!
Darlingrose