The trolley problem

In 1967 the philosopher Philippa foot created what we call today the trolley problem, this consist in a dilema in which people need to decide between saving 5 lives that will get killed because a trolley is approaching them and they cant move or switching the path of the trolley and letting just one person get killed, in this experiment people usually choose letting just one person get killed in order to save five more but the dilema in here is wether to choose between your morals that forbid you being a part of someones dead or the one that has a better outcome. But when they decided to change the scenario in which the same trolley is approaching the same five people but now theres no switch, now theres a bridge  and in order to save the five humans you need to push a person from the bridge, the interesting part its that after this most of the people decided to let the five humans get killed instead of pushing one to safe five, this is because our instincts tell us that its wrong to deliberately kill someone instead of just letting someone die, in my opinion thats the thing about ethics that you really need to think about the repercussions of your decision because we always get told that ethics teaches us to choose between right and wrong, but what happens when theres no right and just wrong? then I think that you need to choose whats must valuable to you and that basically live between choosing right and wrong and where theres no right then applying your morals because at the end of it all live is based on the decisions that we make.   

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