Immiment Death Question

[Lamoc]

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5 People die. You don't have the right to make that kind of desision.

[Manmademusic]

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Indeed.

[meno_rocks123]

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I would half pull the lever so that they would all be caught in the middle. Problem solved.

[Lamoc]

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HAHAH!!! Score!

[Manmademusic]

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Clever.

[Lamoc]

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didn't i say something like that earlier..

[ledwix]

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You can't....didn't you read the first post. the platforms switch INSTANTANEOUSLY (in bold) once you pull the lever. So there's no "in-between" which you speak of; either five people are going to die or one person. The purpose of the question, as stated several times in here before, is not to find a little way to save all six people, but to decide whether saving the lives of five is worth being responsible for the killing of another otherwise safe person or not.

[Lamoc]

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so just let the 5 people die. thier loss

[Hepcat06]

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Lamoc, post something reasonable or get out. That's not critical thinking

[ledwix]

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right; this forum is for higher-level thinkers, not the bottom 90% or more of people who are ignorant. posting like that classifies you as ignorant.

[jewpinthethird]

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You just blew what I said way out of proportion. You shouldn't do anything. Let the 5 people die.

No I didn't. You just don't know how to debate.

[YoEr13]

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Well if I could I'd mess with them and switch them more than once so it becomes more like a game of chance rather than a personal conflict.

If I must choose one, I'd probably let the lone one die. I think his way because I believe that it's better to lose one life than 2. However my choice would definitely change if I knew the identities of these people.

[seththelezzy]

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so just let the 5 people die. thier loss

That's very ignorant.

This is one of the questions that you would not have the time to think about it like you could if you were sitting in front of your computer. You have 6 peoples life in your hands. You would probably react different if you were actually in the situation.

But I would pull the lever. I wouldn't know who they are. They might be someone that was sent to kill me, or for all I know the 5 people could be sent to kill me. But I wouldn't know that. Why take 5 people's lives if you could only take one?

But the 5 people could be your parents, your spouse and your children and the one person could be your ex-spouse. But you wouldn't know that.

But would you react the same way if the 5 people were on the other platform, and a giant metal ball was about to crush only one person?

Like I said, this could only be answered if you were in the situation.

[RandomPscho]

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Why take 5 people's lives if you could only take one?

Have you read this thread? You either kill one person or let the train go as it does. It is not your fault if the 5 die, the train would still kill them if you were not there. If you pull the lever it is your fault you kill somebody.

[hoochan]

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Wouldnt there be a way to time the switch so that it hits neither of them while they are switching places and it just falls to the ground?

Anyway, if I had to choose, Id choose to pull it. The lives of 5 is more important than the life of the 1 person (not saying that that other person's life isnt important). There is no right or wrong answer to this, but I feel that I should save the lives of the majority of people instead of just 1 person.