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Is it right or wrong for you to push a fat man off a bridge in front of a speeding train to stop it from killing five people?

flip a switch that will cause an out of control train to change tracks and kill one person if it means saving five people ?

push the fart button ?

throw pennies at cars from a bridge ?

personally perform a mercy killing ?

 

wrong the fat man isn't involved in the situation, and doesn't deserve to have his life taken away from him.

right More people live, he's fat anyway

right more people are saved

right Ok, now this in the scenario you popped from out of nowhere and said "I'm a time traveller, right, five people, Michael Moore, sure thing", and I would give it a go. Otherwise I'd wait for McGuyver to execute the plan.

wrong uncertanty of sucess, (reword the question)

right exception: chris farley

wrong it's man slaughter

wrong not even a fat guy has enough mass to stop a train killing five people.

wrong no man is fat enough to stop a train

wrong I'm not comfortable deciding someone's fate

right One less fatty.

right there are too many fat people anyway

right you're saving more people than killing.

wrong either way you look bad. Just hope the fat man jumps himself!

wrong a fat bloke won't save five people from a train, you just end up with 6 dead, one of which I murdered

right 1 < 5

right the man IS Michael Moore

right 1 < 5. Although I can't say I see how it would stop the train from killing five people. :P

right How fat is this fucker? If he can stop a speedy train 'm pretty sure I'd have an hard time pushing him over a bridge.

right it's pretty clever to use the mass of a fat guy to stop a train.

wrong then I would decide about the fat man life

right he's fat.

right yes cause your saving more people by sacrificing the fat guy

wrong even if he was the fattest man on Earth, he wouldn't stop a speeding train

wrong Although one is greater then five, how can you be so sure pushing the fat man will stop it from killing five, even if you can see into the future it is the fat mans decision to use his life to save five, not yours.

wrong all lives are not valued equally; I lack the information needed to make a valuation; if he knows his life to be worth less than the five then he can jump himself

wrong the fat man is Michael Moore.

right it's funny when fat ppl die

right he's fat

right fat people are too heavy to fly to Heaven.

wrong the needs of the many DO NOT outweigh the needs of the few. If it was Michael Moore I would be ok with it though.

 

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