[ransomnote]

Admin,
I botched the source name - I typed “dicalxpress.com”
when in fact it is medicalxpress.com. Can you repair this?

[Farmer Dean]

I need more information.Could the large stranger possibly be Michael Moore?

[Jonty30]

If the size differential between me and ther other is sufficient is large enough that I can’t save lives by stepping in front of a moving train, but he could if I pushed him, I doubt I could physically push him.

Maybe if I threw a box of doughnuts on the track or something...

[JSDude1]

Our whole society’s main worldview is machievellian or narciessitic, psychopathic. Not tooting our horn, but it is true that the only people that do not hold these views are Christian influences. -J.S.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I'm rooting for the para-military unionized police officer to make the decision which will always be right. I suspect the big guy mentioned will somehow stop the run away trolly car and the five people will be heroically rescued.

Film at 11.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The example is not a moral dilemma at all.

Your actions will certainly kill the big man. The runaway trolley is a random act of a kind that can happen to anyone. No human can predict the consequences of his failing to act. He can predict the consequences of his actions in the example and thus is morally responsible for such actions.

[COUNTrecount]

A runaway trolley is about to run over and kill five people, and you are standing on a footbridge next to a large stranger; your body is too light to stop the train, but if you push the stranger onto the tracks, killing him, you will save the five people. Would you push the man?"

The only thing you know is that by pushing the large man in front of the trolley you will kill him.How do you know that action will really save the five people on the trolley? Is the large man Chris Christie and are the five passengers Dems? May I have a few hours to think about this?

[MattAMiller]

I don’t want to tangle with a guy who’s big enough to stop a train

[muawiyah]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2786484/posts ~ a good example of the phenomenon this thread discusses. Now, how did these guys get out of med school?

[Age of Reason]

A runaway trolley is about to run over and kill five people, and you are standing on a footbridge next to a large stranger; your body is too light to stop the train, but if you push the stranger onto the tracks, killing him, you will save the five people. Would you push the man?"

What if the fat guy next to me weighs more than the total weight of all five people on the tracks?

[blueunicorn6]

Psychobabble. Limit the choices to two? Living in a black and white world there. Didn’t the Coen brothers make a movie out of this....FRIED GREEN TOMATOES FOR OLD MEN?