Do You Believe In The "Greater Good"?

[BocaRear]

For example,
imagine you're at a railway station and you're looking at the tracks minding your business.

In the distance you see a train approaching and on the railway tracks are there 5 workers who are ignorant to the oncoming train

However, you spot a diversion in the tracks

which leads onto a second railway path.

HOWEVER, this second railway path is not empty. There is a single worker on the second track.

Now you have a choice ahead of you, there is a lever next to you which diverts the path of the train.

What do you choose?

Absolve yourself from the situation and let the 5 workers die or pull the lever and divert the train to kill the single worker?

Please explain why you make your choice too

 

[cheek100]

Beep the horn mf

 

[BocaRear]

Beep the horn mf

this is all down to you

 

[Turk]

Let the single worker die. 1 life is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things

 

[TRFG]

like they don't have ears

 

[BocaRear]

Let the single worker die. 1 life is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things :yehsrug:

Since you have chosen to directly divert the train to the single worker, you are aware that this is essentially murder right?

Unlike allowing the 5 workers to die, the act of willingly participating and altering the path of the train directly implicates you in killing another human being.
what gives you the authority to judge whether one human life is incosequential?

 

[BocaRear]

like they don't have ears

They're wearing noise-cancelling ear muffs breh

 

[The ADD]

The needs of the many........

 

[Reflected]

Wouldn't pulling the lever to divert the train towards the solo man be murder? Or manslaughter? lol

 

[Audemar]

"One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." Obviously not a million, but the underlying point is the same.

 

[ba'al]

 

[Turk]

Since you have chosen to directly divert the train to the single worker, you are aware that this is essentially murder right?

I am aware

Unlike allowing the 5 workers to die, the act of willingly participating and altering the path of the train directly implicates you in killing another human being.
what gives you the authority to judge whether one human life is incosequential?

Nothing gives me the authority to weigh lives but I'll always chose to save more lives if possible.

 

[BocaRear]

Wouldn't pulling the lever to divert the train towards the solo man be murder? Or manslaughter? lol

Wouldn't allowing the 5 people to die also be considered murder? maybe not in a legal perspective but a moral one

In tort law there is a concept called "A duty to rescue" where citizens can sometimes be sued if they fail to come to the aid of someone. This only occurs in special circumstances thoughs.

 

[The BasedFather]

Let them all die cuz I don't give a fukk.

 

[Emoryal]

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