The question of which lane do you switch the track to was never should you kill more people or less but who’s life do you save?
Do you keep in the same lane and save 1 person who would of died if you switched or do you save 5 people who was in the way already only to purposely kill someone else who wasn’t originally in harms way.
It’s truly a hard choice when thought properly.
Yes killing less is better but what if you knew all 6 people and they are close to you who do you save than?
As for this stop it instantly the less you kill the better. Yes the ones that it stops on and the ones behind it are dead but the one before it and so on get to live.
Also I don’t think the trolly would be able to work I mean doesn’t it need the tracks to move with that many people I think it stay still.
Just as a technical note- mathematically you are not dealing with “zero percent of infinity.” A percent is a number divided by 100 right? But “infinity” is not a number- it is a concept. If we treat infinity as a number- you could only get a percent by dividing infinity by itself- well come back to that. If we divide by zero- what do we get? Undefined right? So that’s out the window anyway. But- what if we use infity as a number for the sake of argument?
Well- you aren’t at any point reaching infinity. So you cannot get a percent of who was killed, and it is speculative to say how many will be killed. A percent of an unknown number isn’t zero- it’s unknown. You could only get a percentage of the number of people killed vs the number of people you’ve already passed. If each person is killed as the trolly runs over them- at any given point your actual percent would be 100% killed vs the known number of people.
Do you keep in the same lane and save 1 person who would of died if you switched or do you save 5 people who was in the way already only to purposely kill someone else who wasn’t originally in harms way.
It’s truly a hard choice when thought properly.
Yes killing less is better but what if you knew all 6 people and they are close to you who do you save than?
As for this stop it instantly the less you kill the better. Yes the ones that it stops on and the ones behind it are dead but the one before it and so on get to live.
Also I don’t think the trolly would be able to work I mean doesn’t it need the tracks to move with that many people I think it stay still.