What would you do in the trolly project
Five people stuck on the railway and there's a trolly coming and you have to choose whether you turn away and let all five people die or you could help and only one person would die I think really you're going to be killing someone anyway and I'd rather be blamed for one death then being blamed for five. If you killed all five people, people would ask you why you chose to kill all five of them and not just the one. Killing all five people would honestly make you feel the worst but killing only one would still make you feel bad but you saved the other five lives.
I’d rather let one person die then let that one person and five others die as well. Because you’d be responsible for 6 deaths basically but if you let that one person die you would’ve saved 5 lives and you’d only have to tell one family that they have lost one of their loved ones, instead of having to tell 5 to 6 families that they have lost someone.
(You are walking through a rail yard when you notice a runaway trolley careening your way. Directly in its path are five people, bound and lying across the tracks. They will die if nothing is done. There is a lever nearby. Pulling it will divert the trolley onto another track. On this other track, however, is a man who cannot hear or see you or the trolley. You can stand by and do nothing, watching as five innocent people die, or you can pull the lever, directly causing one man’s death. Which is the more ethical choice?)
The Trolley Problem: In this situation what I think I would do is pull the lever to sacrifice one man other than sacrificing all five people.
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(The dilemma is the same, except that you recognize the guy standing alone as the actor and comedian Jim Carrey. And this is “Dumb and Dumber”-era Jim Carrey. In fact, he’s in costume, and has that bowl haircut he sported in the eminently quotable 1994 film. Remembering all of those funny lines makes you smile. What a great movie. The five tied-up people are also Jim Carrey—clones, you assume—but they’re the modern, anti-vaxxer version, with full beards and dead eyes.)
The Jim Carrey: I would choose to only save the one person and let the other five die because the other five people are clones and aren’t real people, so I’d save the one real person and let the other five unreal people die.
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(In this variation there is no second track but there is another man standing nearby, between the trolley and the five helpless people. If you shove him onto the tracks, his body will likely stop the trolley. You know nothing about this man except that at this very moment he’s on his phone composing a tweet that begins with the word “thread.”
Also, he’s vaping.)
The Thread: I would choose to push the guy so the other five people can live, I would never forgive myself for five people’s deaths but for one it would still take awhile to forgive myself but at least I wouldn’t have to tell six families there loved ones have past, also that guy would be known as a hero
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(You can’t be a hundred percent sure, but it looks like the person standing alone is actually two small people, one standing on the other’s shoulders, sharing a long overcoat. Could they be children? Who are they trying to fool? And why? In any case, they’re probably up to no good.
Does that merit a death sentence, though?)
The long overcoat: I think that it's a bit suspicious that the kids are playing on the railway, so I think that I would save the five people and let that one person die, because the tall man with the long overcoat looked pretty suspicious meaning I didn’t know what he was upto, so I’d kill the one and save the other five
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(The lone man is Adolf Hitler. Actually, this one is kind of a no-brainer, isn’t it? Not sure why it’s even listed here.)
The Hitler: What I would do is pull the lever to save the five people not just because it saves five people’s lives but because hitler was a bad man, who killed people who were so called not perfect.
