Would you kill one person to save the lives of five?

[Solo]

I saw this video on YouTube about the trolley problem. So I want hear NarutoBase opinions(All of this is copy/paste from Wiki):

Scenario 1
There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. Unfortunately, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You do not have the ability to operate the lever in a way that would cause the trolley to derail without loss of life (for example, holding the lever in an intermediate position so that the trolley goes between the two sets of tracks, or pulling the lever after the front wheels pass the switch, but before the rear wheels do).

You have two options:
(1) Do nothing, and the trolley kills the five people on the main track.
(2) Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.

Which is the correct choice?

Scenario 2
As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by dropping a heavy weight in front of it. As it happens, there is a very fat man next to you – your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five.

Should you proceed?

If you picked "Option 2" for the first scenario, but "No" to the second scenario, then what has changed in your decision to save five lives?

Scenario 3(A small twist)
Same as Scenario 2, but the fat man is the villain. The fat man is the one who tied them up and put them there. Does your answer from Scenario 2 still stand?

 

[Solog0d]

i would put them - in detention -

 

[soulless uchiha]

I would probably save the five people, but it would haunt me that I was responsible.

 

[Andy Bogard]

Save 5 and kill 1

Save 5 by pushing the fat man.

Yes, but being evil only makes it more socially acceptable.

 

[dark legion]

I'd make a short for their lives

 

[-6 Paths-]

The lives of many should come before the lives of few. So yeah, I'd go with those five.
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[AShinyPlatypus]

Save 5 in each scenario, it would give me more people to sacrifice to Satan.

 

[ClarifyingThings]

The lives of many should come before the lives of few. So yeah, I'd go with those five.
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But what if you made the wrong choice....... those five People, were full of serial killers & child molesters & that one person that you killed, was a good man with 2 kids & a wife?

 

[LogicnoJutsu]

Scenario 1

Pull the lever, Saving 5 people

Scenario 2

Push the fat man, Saving 5 people

Scenario 3

Push the fat man, Saving 5 people

 

[GenKiDama]

two problems here.
1. would you actually do it when this is occuring in RL with NO WARNING
2. Risk having all six people killed by taking a gamble to save the 5.

 

[soulless uchiha]

But what if you made the wrong choice....... those five People, were full of serial killers & child molesters & that one person that you killed, was a good man with 2 kids & a wife?

Then it was a bad choice. But life still continues.

 

[Solo]

The lives of many should come before the lives of few. So yeah, I'd go with those five.
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Maybe in scenario 1, it can't be helped. But in scenario 2 I don't think the same logic can apply.

two problems here.
1. would you actually do it when this is occuring in RL with NO WARNING
2. Risk having all six people killed by taking a gamble to save the 5.

It's rhetorical question to determine your moral values, I believe.

 

[ClarifyingThings]

Then it was a bad choice. But life still continues.

True, but its still a pretty tuff question, yes everyone is gonna do the noble thing & try to save the 5 people, but you never really know what your getting yourself into, those 5 people could be the same people that kill your mom & dad 2 months after you saved them, you never know

 

[soulless uchiha]

True, but its still a pretty tuff question, yes everyone is gonna do the noble thing & try to save the 5 people, but you never really know what your getting yourself into, those 5 people could be the same people that kill your mom & dad 2 months after you saved them, you never know

Yes, you need to take that into account. However, only in the last scenario was the fat guy called a villain, or evil. I assumed that everyone except him was good. It's vague.

 

[-6 Paths-]

But what if you made the wrong choice....... those five People, were full of serial killers & child molesters & that one person that you killed, was a good man with 2 kids & a wife?

What if it's the other way around? What if the one man is a child molester, and the five people are good? As long as I don't know anything about these people, I'll go with the lives of five over the life of one.
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[Sauce]

The lives of many should come before the lives of few. So yeah, I'd go with those five.
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I agree with this.

 

[ClarifyingThings]

What if it's the other way around? What if the one man is a child molester, and the five people are good? As long as I don't know anything about these people, I'll go with the lives of five over the life of one.
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In the heat of the moment, yes i would also save the 5 people, i was just giving food for thought

 

[~WastelandSociety~]

None. I'll find a way to save them all.

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

I think that in all of them you should save the 5 people.

It's not a satisfactory or a rewarding thing to do and it will definitely ruin your life but it's selfish to think on personal things like that, either way if you do nothing or do something you will carry guilt, and ultimately with those 2 options it's basically your duty to save those lives, carrying a bit of self-hatred is awful but in the grand scheme of things you have done good and that self-hatred has saved 5 lives.

You can't pretend you're not there. You're clearly part of this situation whether you like it or not and to deny that and say 'I shouldn't get involved' is a lie, you're involved in a situation like that and even if you do nothing and pretend it never happened and you're not to blame- you were ENTIRELY. RESPONSIBLE.​

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

What if it's the other way around? What if the one man is a child molester, and the five people are good? As long as I don't know anything about these people, I'll go with the lives of five over the life of one.
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Exactly, you save 5 people and there's a higher chance of you saving at least one good person than when you save just one.