PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Euthyphro Dilemma, Visible Minority, Twin Earth Thought Experiment
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There are 5 people on a track and the train is coming towards them. She can either let the train kill the 5 people by not flipping the switch or she can flip the switch and murder 1 man. There are 5 people on the track and the train is coming towards them. She can either push the fat boy off the platform, blocking the train from killing the 5 people but she would be killing him. Or she can do nothing and let the 5 people get killed. The difference is that in the trolley case study you are causing a switch to kill someone"s life, however if you didn"t do anything you would simply just let the 5 people die. The other man on the track that is attached to the train track would just carry about his regular day. However in the fat boy case, you are using someone to save the life of others.
