Name: Anonymous 2013-01-21 19:34
>Difficult ethics questions.
Answer with "[+]"
or #[-]____
[Murderer]
1. A runaway boxcar is about to run over
five people walking on the tracks. A
railroad worker is standing next to a
switch that can turn the boxcar onto a side
track, killing one person, but allowing the
five to survive. Flipping the switch is
______.
[Harvester]
2. Five people have just been rushed into a
hospital in critical condition, each
requiring an organ to survive. There is not
enough time to request organs from outside
the hospital, but there is a healthy person
in the hospital's waiting room. If the
surgeon takes this person's organs, he will
die, but the five in critical care will
survive. Taking the healthy person's organs
is _______.
[Patriot]
3. A runaway boxcar is about to run over
five foreign people trapped on the tracks.
A railroad worker is standing next to a
switch that can turn the boxcar onto a side
track, killing one person you know and love
that is tied to the tracks, but allows the
five foreigners to survive. Flipping the
switch is ______.
[Hero]
4. You are one of the potential victims of
one of these three scenarios above but you
carry a means of stopping them in advance
but it causes their death. Would you want
to know who is reponsible for moving you
into harm's way so that you could save
yourself?
______.
[God]
5. You are a deity and you forget who is
good and who is bad. Do you still have
a hell for them if it means that someone
innocent will end up there wrongfully?
______.