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by dwringer 1438 days ago
Interestingly the website poll indicates two thirds of people would not pull the lever to have the train run over themselves to save five people. So if you ask the guy on the other track, he seems unlikely to assent to pull the lever in time to save the other people.
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Well, right now a surgical team are able to kill you and transplant your organs to save five people. Do you consent?

(Do you 'pull the lever' and instruct the surgical team to kill one stranger to save five strangers?)

No, but I almost never pulled the lever anyway and it cost 80 souls to "solve philosophy". It was almost more but I didn't quite save the sentient robots because I didn't believe they were really sentient.