Sentences with phrase «switch on a trolley»

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Or past the fact that, hey, the trolley has to run on time, and we always flip this switch that way at this time of day?

To sort out this conflicting picture, Cornelissen and his colleagues asked 84 undergraduates what they would do in a hypothetical dilemma where a runaway trolley is on a collision course with five people, and the only way to save them is to flip a switch, reroute the trolley and kill one person.

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

Sacked Liberal Democrat minister Jeremy Browne has compared his party to a «shopping trolley that defaults to the left» in a parting attack on the party's rank - and - file which has revived predictions of a switch to the Tories.

Instead of pushing a cart, you can throw a switch to divert the trolley away from the five people, but it will kill one person standing on another track.

For instance, take the classic dilemma, in which a runaway trolley is about to kill five people unless you throw a switch and divert it to another track, where it will kill just one (discussed by Peter Singer on page 41).

Throwing a switch for a trolley, on the other hand, is not the sort of thing our ancestors confronted.