Trolleyology Case Study

Trolleyology

In this week video discussion, the main subject is it ok for the trolley to kill five or one individual that are tied to the trolley track. The back ground of the scenario, remains a person is on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge, he will topple onto the line and, although he will die, his chunky body will stop the train, saving five lives. The question is, is it permissible to kill one or the five individuals.

From my understanding it is unacceptable to slay anyone life. But acording to the trolley video, it is never permissible to intended to innocence to welfare verses it is permissible to for see that the same number of people dying to pursue to some military objective. Therefore, what would be my option, I would consider slaying the one instead of slaying the five that is tied to the trolley tack.

Prisoner’s Dilemma

Reviewing this scenario of the two prisoner dilemma, the issue is, should they keep quite or not say anything to police or they can confess their crime to the police.

My first thoughts, was to confess to the police, but, the video mention a game theory to distinguish who should tell or remain quit. While reviewing this video, they also mention, the first prisoner is a male, and the second prisoner is a female. If prisoner one confess he will receive a lesser time spent in prisoner and prisoner two receive no prison time. If prisoner two confess first, prisoner one should confess as well to receive a lesser time of eight months an piece, this is called a strict dominance idea. Strict dominance will give prisoner one a better pay off then keeping quiet, regardless of what prisoner two say or does. So, in this case, it is better off confessing than keeping quiet to receive a lesser

charge.
Justice – What’s the right thing to do? – Summary Points
This video refer back to the trolley scenario, what is the right thing to do? Some of the student had some very interesting view points on why they would slay the five versus the one. One student stated, it won’t be right to kill the five, when you can kill one instead. Another student stated, in order to safe one type of race you will need to wipe out the other. Now the professor mention, if you was standing over a bridge overlook the track and you see a trolley car coming toward the five worker, the trolley brake does not work. However, you notice a heavy fat man next to you, you can give him a shrug so he can fall over the bridge onto the track right in the way of the trolley car he will die, but you will spare the life of the five workers. What would you explain the difference between the two? One student stated, it involves an active choice of pushing the fat person down, which can be considered a murder, because that person had control over versus the trolley car did not have any control stopping.
Reviewing this video, there were various results on how to handle this situation. Honestly, there no right or wrong answer.
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