Perspective View Of The Trolley Cart Problem

The idea of a perspective view when it comes to the morals of another’s decision could be said that “[b]eauty is in the eye of the beholder” (Margaret Wolfe Hungerford). Morals can be defined as, “Normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons”(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Of Morality). The code of conduct is reference that people like to go to when asked what their reasoning for doing a certain action over another, and if that person had deemed their actions morally wrong or right. The definition of perspective is that “[t]he capacity to observe items, occurrences, and ideas in realistic proportions and unions” (Pam Nugent, Perspective). The observation of

There’s always been this sense of “right or wrong” when a decision is made. There was study that was done to test the morals of people, it was called the “Trolley Cart Problem”(Judith Jarvis Thomson, Trolley Problem). The Trolley Cart Problem is a dilemma that was written some time ago by british researcher named Philippa Foot. The dilemma created a situation that will test one person’s morals in making their decision. Judith states in her writing that “[d]rivers two options: continue on the track ahead, on which five men are working, thereby killing the five, or steer onto a spur of track of track off to the right on which one man is working , thereby killing the one man” (Judith Jarvis Thomson, Trolley Problem). This was set up to decide if it the person could live with watching 5 people die, knowing that something could be done, or have the weight of having killed one person to save the five. The moral background to this problem is if someone is able to live with themselves knowing that a lever could’ve been some way that the people could have been saved, but yet if that lever was pulled, on a moral standard would be have a murder on that person's hand as there is one person on the other track. The study of morality states that:

[m]orality describes the principles that govern our behavior.