You are walking along the railroad tracks when you hear a train racing up behind you Next to you is an unlocked rail switch at a Y in the tracks Ahead theres five rail workers having lunch on the tracks all wearing headphones completely unaware of the train bearing down upon them On the other side is one person sitting on the rails unaware of the train. decide do you throw the switch send the train toward the lone individual and cause his death or do nothing and allow the five men to die..You are the finest doctor in all the land While you are doing a routine checkup on a man five people are brought to you who were critically injured Coincidentally all five victims and the man in for a checkup share the same blood type Each of the victims is injured in a different vital organ and will die without a transplant You are such a great doctor that it is guaranteed that all the transplants will be successful and each person would make a complete recovery so decide...
2006-08-01
00:25:11
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do you kill the healthy individual and harvest his organs so that the five men will survive or do nothing and allow the victims to die. whats the difference between the two?
2006-08-01
00:25:38 ·
update #1