Michael Sandel is a Harvard professor and he got his international fame with his lectures on justice. In the first lecture, he developed a moral dilemma case and it goes like this:
Scenario 1: You are a trolley car operator. You noticed there are five workers down the track your trolley car is traveling on. You applied the brakes but they are not working. You realised there is side track you can turn into but there was one worker on that track.
Would you steer to the side track?
Majority of the people will say ‘ýes’ and often quoting the reason that it is better to save five than to save one.
Scenario 2: There is a trolley car heading towards five workers on the track. Standing beside you is a fat man whom you know you can stop the trolley car if you would just push him down onto the ......