(May 18, 2016 at 7:04 pm)Aroura Wrote: Likely I would freeze up. I might wish to save to 5 people. I might even be willing to kill one person to save 5 others, but the time factor involved in this particular scenario would likely not be enough time for me to process it all and feel certain enough to take that action.
Is the fat guy a scientist who has the cure for cancer and is on his way to publish it? Are the 5 people on the tracks all pedophiles and rapists? I don't know. The scenario just doesn't have enough info for me to take action, so I'd like take none as a form of indecision.
Also, even if I did want to push the fat guy, I'm 5' nothing and just over 100lbs. He probably wouldn't even notice me pushing, let alone actually fall down onto the tracks.
I get your point, but the chances that the fat guy would be extremely good and the five people extremely bad is extremely improbable. Knowing nothing in that situation, you should simply go with the numbers.
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