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Suppose you were operating a subway network and one of the trains has a brake failure. If you do nothing it hits the end of the tunnel and everyone on the train dies. You can also throw a switch to send it into a long narrow abandoned stretch of tunnel (so that the train can coast to a stop) that is closed for maintenance and inevitably flatten a lone construction worker. What do you do?
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If given that choice you obviously kill the lone construction worker, and save everyone else.
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Suppose you had been one of Hitler's inner circle and had the chance to plant a bomb under his desk. If you do nothing, millions of people will die. If you do kill him, then your level-headed friend takes over and the war ends without further bloodshed but an innocent secretary will also be in the same room as the bomb when it goes off. What do you do?
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A no brainer sorry, you kill Hitler and the secretary and save millions of people.