A death and death situation
BBC News presents five ethical situations where you have to choose whose life (or lives) to save. Mostly variants of "would you save one life if it killed five." (thx, brian)
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Great stuff, Marco. I can't believe I didn't see the importance of nine months immediately. Silly me.
Nobody wants to push the fat man off the bridge!
Why is he fat, anyway? Why include that detail unless they want you to make a value judgment about his fatness?
He wouldn't stop the train if he wasn't fat.
Maybe in England they have funny little trains, but the ones I've seen would need a pile of sumo wrestlers.
Right, the reason I wouldn't push the fat guy is nothing to do with morality, but exactly that then you'd have six dead people.
The question specified that you knew that only the fat man (and not yourself) would stop the train. How you knew this was unclear, perhaps you were a psychic, or an expert in fat man physics.
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