Trolley Problem.

[Anonymous]

A runaway trolley is speeding down the tracks. If you do nothing, it will kill five workers. You the option to pull a lever, diverting the trolley onto another track where it will kill one person instead. Do you pull the lever ?
Why or why not ?

[Anonymous]

Why is this under religion? It’s a philosophy Q.

[Anonymous]

You always pull the lever. One is a passive action, the other is active, but either way, you are making a decision. There is no weaseling out of this with fate or God's plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You always pull the lever. One is a passive action, the other is active, but either way, you are making a decision. There is no weaseling out of this with fate or God's plan.

I wouldn’t.
I will let things unfold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A runaway trolley is speeding down the tracks. If you do nothing, it will kill five workers. You the option to pull a lever, diverting the trolley onto another track where it will kill one person instead. Do you pull the lever ?
Why or why not ?

This is a very old ethics question. For religious people, religion plays a part in your response.

I'd pull the lever, assuming I had the presence of mind to do so in time, because it would be one life instead of 5 that were lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this under religion? It’s a philosophy Q.

Most religions incorporate ethical philosophy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this under religion? It’s a philosophy Q.

Most religions incorporate ethical philosophy.

While the concepts underlying it are as old as time, the problem in this form is not that old. 1967.

Yes, most religions do incorporate ethical philosophy but this is not a religious question.

[Anonymous]

The one individual is of your religion, the five are of a conflicting one. How about now?

[Anonymous]

This is a religious problem like asking “if you put an unbaptized baby in Schrodinger‘s box, do they go to hell?” is a religious problem. Just because you can say a thing with words, it doesn’t mean the thing you’re saying has any actual underlying significance or meaning.

Also, the solution, for anyone interested:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/u76roy/solution_to_the_trolley_problem/

[Anonymous]

There is no solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A runaway trolley is speeding down the tracks. If you do nothing, it will kill five workers. You the option to pull a lever, diverting the trolley onto another track where it will kill one person instead. Do you pull the lever ?
Why or why not ?

No.
If I pull the lever I would be actively killing an innocent person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A runaway trolley is speeding down the tracks. If you do nothing, it will kill five workers. You the option to pull a lever, diverting the trolley onto another track where it will kill one person instead. Do you pull the lever ?
Why or why not ?

No.
If I pull the lever I would be actively killing an innocent person.

Sounds like you’re religious, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A runaway trolley is speeding down the tracks. If you do nothing, it will kill five workers. You the option to pull a lever, diverting the trolley onto another track where it will kill one person instead. Do you pull the lever ?
Why or why not ?

No.
If I pull the lever I would be actively killing an innocent person.

Sounds like you’re religious, right?

What does that answer have to do with religion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The one individual is of your religion, the five are of a conflicting one. How about now?

That would make no difference to me.
I’d most likely pull the lever.
Unless the one person was a child molester or something…….

[Anonymous]

The people on flight 93 chose to down the plane killing themselves but knowing the risk if they didn’t was even more deaths.
Assumimg I had no intel on the lives of the people I’m saving /killing I’d pull the lever.