Should You Kill the Fat Man?

Preliminary Questions

This activity is a treatment of some of the issues thrown up by a thought experiment called 'The Trolley Problem', which was first outlined by the philosopher Philippa Foot, and then developed by Judith Jarvis Thomson and others. But before we start properly, we need to ask you four preliminary questions so we get a sense of the way that you think about morality. There are no right or wrong answers. Just select the option that most corresponds to your view.

Question 1: Torture, as a matter of principle, is always morally wrong.

  

Really Deep Thought

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
   --Bertrand Russell.


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