Trolley Problem

[Vader]

The situation with the train is hypothetical and highly unrealistic, for the purposes of argument just assume that the potential organ recipients are just as doomed as the people on the tracks.

 

[UnSquare]

^ You speak of fate as if it is a concious driving force. Its not.

Do you mean not a conscious driving force
in the sense that fate is unconscious,
or do you mean that fate is not a conscious
driving force as in fate is NOT a force?

 

[jonny87]

i think I would feel more guilty for the rest of my life if i didn't do anything, because then i would have killed 3 people knowing that i had the choice to kill just one. Inaction is as much of a choice as action is and for this reason I would still feel like I had killed those 3 people if I let the train carry on.

What if someone said they they would kill either one person or 3 people and the choice was yours....you would say just kill one right? now suppose that the method they used to kill them was by setting the people on train tracks as in the question...would you feel guilty saying just kill one still?