Op-Ed: The biology of ethics

January 19, 2007

Imagine this:
Five men are working on a railroad track and they don’t hear an out-of-control trolley barreling toward them. The trolley certainly will kill them. You, however, happen to be standing next to a switch that, if pulled, would redirect the trolley onto a parallel track on which only one man works.
Do you pull the switch, sacrificing one man in order to save five? (TriCities.com)