evandixon

<p><p><p><p><p><p>There are two ways to view this: deontologically and teleologically (utilitarianism). The former emphasises on the means, if it is wrong, it shouldn't be done. The latter is "the ends justifies the means". So in that scenario, if you think deontologically, you would leave the train be, because you'd kill the 5 people, but by accident with no control over the scenario. Then there's the teleological, where you decide to switch so that one person dies, but you deliberately killed that one person by your own accord, but that was because in the end, five people were saved, even if it meant one person died. Personally, I lean towards the deontological side when sticky scenarios such as that would occur, but that's just me.</p></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p><p>There we go; a crash course on ethics. Nice having a bit of intellectual conversation here... somewhat.</p></p></p></p></p></p>