A moral question! What would you do?

A trolley were coming down the tracks, but you could throw yourself onto the tracks to divert it from killing 1-5 people. Would YOU do it? Basically you're asking the same question. Or are you asking if you believe in murdering an innocent bystander to save another? See the difference. If you throw the innocent bystander on the tracks then you are a murderer and would be convicted as such. If you flick the switch then you are still considered as a murder and would be convicted as such for murdering that single person. So what would YOU do? Are you willing to spend the rest of your life in jail for your actions? It seems that the best alternative to your moral dillema, if you perceive it as such, would be to give up your own life to save all the others.

 

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if they were my friends/family/loved ones i would try as hard as i can to save them,

if i didnt know any of them then i wouldent even try to be a hero, i would try to get myself the fuck outa there, also especially if im with my loved ones i would make sue they stay out of danger/harm,


thats my honest answer,

i have actually saved many of my friends lives before from a burning building before but i wont go into that because i want no credit for it or praise i just did what i had to do, i have saved my mothers life before and my wifes from a group of men trying to break into our house and kill us, i had to do some bad things that day it was recent aswell, just a few weeks ago, but me and my family were untouched but the other guys were pretty bad off, there were about 6 of them all with hand to hand weapons, i had 1 katana, anyways thats enough about these things,


this thread just sparked relevent memories, i will defend myself and the people i love, but not complete strangers when it involves risking my life, because i have people that care alot about me, if anything happens to me tey will be very sad and upset, so i keep myself safe for there sake,




depends who is on the track,

peace.

 

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As with so many of these 'moral' issues, there is no single answer that is both logical and fits all occasions - rather, each decision must be made as and when the time requires it. Replacing the single person on the line with a loved member of your family changes the dynamics of the decision making dramatically. In this instance you could even put 50 / 500 / 5000 people on the other line and so many people would still not be able to flip the switch and let their loved one die. So, even though the maths may be the same, the moral dilema is completely different.

 

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Having been in that type of dilema, then the only thing you can do is sacrifice the few to save the many,

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RE: Alex123- The out of control trolley

Either choice means acting “godlike”. How can you be sure that the one life is less valuable than the five others, total, are? What if the one life is the one of someone you love? What if any or all of those five lives on the trolley are people you love? What if all those involved are people you love.

In a situation, like the trolley out of control, you react (or you don’t, which in itself is a reaction). There is no moral choice, there is only gut reaction.

Moreover, whatever the choice, the personal aftermath is guilt!

Where moral choice is operative is in ongoing situations, Holocausts, abortion, gay rights, world hunger, etc.

 

What situation were you in?

 

Simple fact is:
the more people saved, there more people there will be to reproduce, and thus the further our species will spread. vivre humanité.