I agree. In real life, when the trolley is about to run over the five children, you stop the trolley. You don’t flip a switch that moves the trolley over to one other child, much less toss a fat man off a footbridge. And if you can’t stop the trolley, you try to find a way; you don’t give up and pick the slightly-less-bad option.
I agree. In real life, when the trolley is about to run over the five children, you stop the trolley. You don’t flip a switch that moves the trolley over to one other child, much less toss a fat man off a footbridge. And if you can’t stop the trolley, you try to find a way; you don’t give up and pick the slightly-less-bad option.
In my experience, in real life what most people do in a crisis is stand there and dither.
I used to do this, but the crises made it exceptionally difficult to get the checkerboard pattern right.
Ba-dum-ching.
First you flip the switch, then you make an extraordinary effort to stop the trolley.