#1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"

[robvalue]

I don't know if I'd freeze up or not. I'm happy to say I've never been in a position where I've been required to quickly make decisions of such magnitude. I hope I never will.

In this case, I wouldn't consider anything to be murder. I wouldn't even call it manslaughter. I'd call it attempting to save lives through damage control. But if you did want to term it manslaughter, then letting 5 people die would be manslaughter by neglect.

I don't consider the lever to be relevant. It would only be relevant if there was a really good reason why it was set the way it was, rather than how it happened to be when this weird scenario started. But imagining why it would be set up that way is difficult.

Rob, would you rather kill one of your children and save 5 or "save" one(by not killing the child ) and get the rest of the 5 killed?

Well I don't have any, but rationally I'd reason to still save the five. If I had to guess, I would do the opposite in a real situation though.