Posted by Rach on March 1, 2005, at 3:57:44
In reply to Re: (1) One or Six??? » alexandra_k, posted by Larry Hoover on February 28, 2005, at 22:00:54
What if the six people were men who broke out from high security prison, and were all serial murderers? And the one person was Mother Teresa? Or Ghandi? Or the guy who finds a cure for depression?
Surely, then, it would be better for the human race to kill the murderers...
I would do nothing. Because if I changed the course of that train, then I would be choosing to kill that one person. It would be MY fault that the one person died. By doing nothing, I personally have not created or caused the situation.
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