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Philosophy

The Trolley Problem and Its Variants

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Most people say yes to pulling the lever but no to pushing the man, even though both actions save five lives at the cost of one—revealing a deep puzzle about moral intuition.

Why this is interesting

Imagine a runaway trolley is about to kill five people. You can pull a lever to divert it onto a side track, but that path has one person on it. Would you pull the lever? Now imagine you could push a fat man off a bridge to stop the trolley—would you do that instead?