(January 24, 2018 at 7:36 pm)SaStrike Wrote:(January 24, 2018 at 7:24 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: You're not killing an innocent person in the trolley scenario. You're changing the tracks so that the least amount of people are killed.
Sorry, innocent has no place in the dilemma, no idea why i included that, my bad.
If you were standing on a set of tracks that was safe and someone pulls a lever causing a train to hit you, pretty sure it's murder.
If you just did it for the hell of it, sure. Thats not the scenario presented though, and you're purposely leaving out the crucial part. If you do it because the train will either hit 5 people or 1, and youre trying to save the most amount of people, then no. Of course its not murder.
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