Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Trolley Problem
12 Dec 2015
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Trolley driver fainted and you have to throw the switch. Let five people die by not doing anything or let one person die by doing something. Knowing something bad vs. doing something bad. One answer: its the conjunction of two principles: killing one is worse than letting five die, killing five is worse thank killing one (so you must turn the. More permissible to kill people who know the risk by being on the track. If people put themselves in harms way, the people causing harm are less liable trolley) You see an opportunity to switch the train onto another track. You"re just like the trolley drover, you now have the means to do. The facts make you responsible for what happened. You have a third choice unlike the trolley driver, you"re nothing to. Is there a difference between this case and trolley driver? something the train unlike the trolley driver (its their job, you"re there by chance)
