He parked one day near a train track, coincidentally a runaway train was coming towards his expensive car. As you can imagine, he would have been frantic trying to stop this train from damaging his car, but he was too far away to move his car out of the train's path. He realized that in the immediate vicinity there was also a child playing. He quickly had an idea to save his Bugatti, but it would come at the expense of the child's life. He unfortunately chooses his retirement insurance and flips a switch to divert the train away from his car into the path of the child who died after being hit by the runaway train. Singer says people often face similar dilemmas and, surprisingly, we act in selfish ways that benefit us. Family and society may have told us that we should look out for others who can take care of themselves, but somehow we always serve our own interests. It is a great challenge to live a morally decent life, because it means that we will have to sacrifice more of our desires in the name of helping those who do not have as much to survive. He admits that we are all in this situation and is faced with the dilemma of how best to act without being