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Essay / Psychiatry Discussion Paper - 714
I particularly enjoyed talking about the trolley problem, I think it's a very intriguing question. I think each person's response says a lot about their personality and outlook on life. My point is that we should try to save as many people as possible, even if it means making a difficult decision, like pulling the lever, in order to save five lives from danger and kill one. Unfortunately, you lose this life that wasn't originally in play, but you save five more that were, but that's four more lives than would have been saved before. Most people, I believe, would have the same answer as me at first, and then they will consider other things, like the fact that they are intentionally killing a person, instead of just letting the cart follow its original path and killing the five people for fear that they would be implicated. . So instead of saving four more lives, the average person would let all five die, preserving their belief in their innocence, asserting their lack of involvement in the situation, but in reality, faced with a difficult but rational decision, they chose run away and let those in danger escape