Making the decisions that it is going to be one or five should be easy, right? Less people getting hurt, less pain afflicted on the least amount of people. Then you can play the scapegoat, and not touching the switch at all, making it down to the trolley fault, that the brakes just went out. If pulling the switch to save the five you are killing one, is that making you a murder. Consequences that you decided that the one has to die to save the others. Then having to live with the guilt of it, that you took someone’s life. What makes that immoral or moral? It was the right decisions for the …show more content…
Trying to make the decision, that only killing one is okay because five people walked away from it. About the obesity man, the only thing is there is no way on putting someone else lives in front of anybody else’s, that is the problem of putting him in the front of the trolley. Who gets to have the final word, who is more important then who? It is hard to make a decision that makes everyone happy, in any situation in the world. With every situation, there are so many outcomes, there is no way that everyone can stay happy threw the whole thing. In every decision, you make you try to make more people happy then mad, unless you are making the decision for yourself. Which would be irreverent in utilitarianism.
Greatest Happiness Principle believes that you doing something bad, to make the most people happy isn’t wrong. Utilitarianism is all based from the statement that no act is immoral if it provides the greatest amount of happiness, or least amount of pain, for the greatest number of people. They would agree, that killing the one is better than killing the five, it falls under that rule. Even killing the obese man is okay, because more people came out happy then not. That there is no good or bad, that whatever the situation is it has rules it falls into and that is what makes it moral/good or