I've been trying to post the into the "Easy Question..." thread, but I keep getting a message about a trigger word, if someone wants to tell me which one it is I'll stop using it, but I'm at a complete loss otherwise.
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Originally posted by CDarwin:
Am I right in thinking that this question throws up the same results whatever culture and/or religion?
Apparently, you are. According to
this study about 90% of people feel it is right to pull the lever and this is the same across different religions (& atheists).
As BBM (correctly) stated (don't worry, there are more). The 2nd problem is that you are on a bridge over the track and can stop the train by pushing a weight onto the track, but the only large weight available is a f@t man sat on the bridge. Do you push him off?
Since this has been touched on already, I'll jump the 9un a bit and suggest that whether you'd pull the lever or not the idea of pushing the poor s0ul onto the track probably (for most of us) seems at least 'less right', if not more wrong.
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"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be" D Adams
