The Dilemma

Flip:

·             Most people choose this option because it is the “better thing to do”

·             Good of many comes first

·             Reduce the number deaths if you can

·             Saving more lives is the most important thing

·             Push the fat man off because he is saving more people

·             Healthy patient can be killed to save the other people because one death is better than 5

Don't Flip:

·             Natural selection- sitting on train tracks playing cards and eating lunch. They don’t receive sensory input

·             The weaker species will die out because they can’t survive (don’t understand to move off of train tracks)

·             Maybe they want to die- there for a reason

·             Don’t push the fat man off, push a bunch of skinny people off- he isn’t unintelligent like the people just sitting there

·             Don’t kill the healthy patient, the other people are closer to death

o   Unethical to kill just the one man