(January 30, 2018 at 8:08 am)Mathilda Wrote: Funnily enough this issue has come up in a role playing game that I am in and it's causing a bit of consternation amongst some of my fellow players while others are fine with it. It's made me realise that when it comes to 5 people versus 1 the choice is easy.
What's not so easy is when it's a billion people versus a million. The numbers are too big to contemplate the difference.
Or particularly when the future is not assured.
What if it's not a train on tracks, but a runaway car that you are 95% sure of running over a group of 5 unsuspecting people and if you actively try then you can have it veer over a cliff instead, but there's someone strapped into the back seat who will die if you do so?
Is that one person a fat person, or a normal person? Your scenario is leaving out important details!
