In this essay will be discussing the trolley problem devised by Philippa Foot‚ and exploring different aspects of utilitarianism in relation the situation. The trolley problem is as follows ‘A train is hurtling down a track and you see that it is going to hit a group of 5 people and will certainly kill them all. However you are standing on a bridge over the line next to a fat man and you are sure that if you pushed him onto the line his bulk would be sufficient to stop the train before it hit the
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lot of dilemmas we go over in class there are a couple that stand out to me. The trolley dilemma is a situation I personally hope I never encounter and the dilemma where if you had a ring that made you invisible. The dilemma with the trolley is a terrifying situation to be in if you are the one operating the tracks. Either way someone is going to die and that’s going to be on you. If I were the one operating the trolley tracks and I had to choose between killing one person and four people‚ I’m going
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Driving the trolley car down the street and looking ahead there are workers on the track‚ seeing this trying to brake. They brakes on the trolley went out. It is heading to kill the five workers on the track. The driver has the option on switching the track on a different way‚ but it is still headed to kill one worker on the track. What is the right thing to do? What is the moral thing to do‚ based from thesis statement? After that‚ the same situation is happening now you have the option‚ that a
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dies? This is the reason I fell in love with the Trolley Theory during one of our lectures. The Trolley Theory is an ethical experiment commonly discussed and analyzed by philosophers. In the experiment‚ you must decide if having a single person die in an accident is better‚ or worse than having five people die in an accident. In this paper I will talk about the Trolley Theory as well as the “Fat Man” theory which is based off on the Trolley Theory. I will discuss the way of thinking around
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In the death by trolley‚ a train is about to hit five people and you control the lever‚ and thus you have to decide between two choices. Your first choice is to leave the lever and let the train hit the five people‚ while the second is to move the lever resulting in the death of one person. It is hard to choose in the trolley dilemma problem since both options result in death. However‚ if I would have to make the decision‚ I would switch the lever. Switching the lever would cause fewer deaths. As
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Trolley problems can be a useful tool in the discussion of bioethics in order to make people look into their own morality and what drives that underlying decision chosen in the classic trolley problem. While some people are certain of their decision initially‚ others are unsure of what the most ethical option is. Let us consider a problem discussed in class about human embryos and stem cell research in the framework of a trolley problem. In this scenario‚ five men arrive at a reputable hospital for
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THE TROLLEY PROBLEM Jessica Fowler Baker College Online HUM 401A In “The Trolley Problem” two scenarios are given to the reader. The first scenario is that the reader is a passerby that happens to be standing near a switch that could change the course of the trolley. The trolley is no longer in control and if it continues‚ it will kill the five people that are standing on the tracks ahead. Over to the side‚ there is another track that only has one person on it. The reader is given the choice
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The Trolley Problems The Trolley Problems Many times in an individual’s life they are faced with difficult decisions. These decisions create domino effect and no one decision is isolated to only the current situation. In the case of the trolley problem‚ the decision to be made will result in death. Either five individuals will die‚ or only one will have to lose his life. In the first scenario the act of sacrificing one comes at the pull of a lever and in the second you must push him onto the
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The trolley problem presents a question of human perception of morality which presents two methods of killing in order to save lives. In the one problem‚ a trolley can be diverted with the turning of a switch‚ thus killing one but saving five‚ or to take direct physical action and push a large man onto the tracks‚ killing one‚ but saving five. In the responses which were given on the discussion board‚ I could not predict with truth what I would in reality do. To both responses‚ I wrote that it
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Extra Piece of Track” In 1985‚ a widely known moral philosopher named Judith Jarvis Thomson introduced a famous variant of the Trolley Problem called the Loop case. After doing so many of his colleagues considered the Loop case to be an absolute counter to the Doctrine of Double Effect. In Whitley R. P. Kaufman’s paper‚ “The Doctrine of Double Effect and the Trolley Problem”‚ Kaufman tries to argue against this widely accepted view by a variety of different means throughout the paper. These means range
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