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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not pull the lever. One life is just as precious as five lives. It’s not quantified decision - how many lives. I don’t have the tools and knowledge to decide which lives are more “important” or worth saving. So I would not make that call.[/quote]As Stalin said, “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic”.

I disagree with Stalin. A million deaths is a million tragedies. Each person was someone’s child, brother, sister or spouse. [/quote]

Conversely, no one’s getting out of this universe alive. You could decline to pull the lever, only to find the single person dead of a heart attack on the tracks. You could pull the lever, and the five people you save could go out and get drunk afterwards and end up driving into a bus full of nuns, orphans and jet fuel. You could figure out how to save everyone, against all odds, but [i]whoops[/i] nuclear war breaks out before you can put your plan into action. You could try to save everyone, but your plan goes awry, and everyone dies, and you end your life a broken man never realizing you prevented the birth of a second Hitler. It’s a uniquely useless thought experiment.[/quote]

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