A Runaway Trolley Is Speeding Toward Five Workers on the Tracks

question 38

Multiple Choice

A runaway trolley is speeding toward five workers on the tracks. The only way to stop the trolley is to push a large person off a bridge onto the tracks in front of it.

• A) Children say it is morally acceptable, but adults do not.
• B) Most people say this is morally acceptable.
• C) Most people say this is not morally acceptable.
• D) People disagree whether this is morally acceptable or not.

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