What would you choose?

[emma01]

My friends and I were having a discussion about this at lunch time, I know what I think...but what would you do in these situations.

1. You are walking alongside a railway track, and come across a point where the tracks split into two. You then see a train coming, the track is set to go on path one. You look down path one and see 5 people tied to the train tracks, you then look down path two, and see one person tied to the tracks. Do you leave the train to kill 5 people, or change it to kill only one?
-The people are all complete strangers to you
-You can easily change the path of the train
-You do have enough time to make the desicion and change the tracks
-You cannot stop the train!!!

2. You and 3 friends are captured on an island by pirates. The pirates say you can either kill one friend, or all three. If you kill just one, that friend will know you made the decision. Either way you can get free. So, do you choose a friend to be killed...or let all 3 die?
-If all 3 are to be killed, none of them know it was your decision
-They are ALL equal to you, you like all of them the exact same

3. You are in a group of 6 friends and are all very close. Would you rather lose all your friends, or lose your mum.
-You are very close to your mum (if anyone reading this isn't, try and think of it as another family member you are close to)

This thread isn't menat to offend anyone in any way! Please, if it does offend you, or is somehow against the TOS, please remove it! It is just some questions I had a discussion about!

[Eljoria]

WOW!

Firstly, I would rather save 5 than 1 because 5 is more and special than single.
Secondly, I would rather be dead than hurt all 3. I wouldn't be able to dream them as my mum, my sister and my boyfriend. As I rather die than have them 3 dead.
Thirdly, I rather lose all my friends and keep my mum. Because like, we're not very close and everyone else in my family are distant but I know how it feels, as friends go but family stay in the heart.

[Cabron]

1. I would choose the five people, better to save more lives.
2. I'm not really sure, I might choose one so that the others would have a chance at living.
3.This one, is really hard. I almost want to say my mum or other figure, since we've never been very close and there's no way I could do without my friends. It's tough, though.

[L'espoir]

1) I would save the 5 people
2) I would kill one and let the others live
3) I'm a bit iffy on this one but i would probably keep my mum to be honest

[her_beautiful_mistake]

1) I would change it to save the 5 people
2) I would choose a friend to kill
3) Hardest one to answer but I'd probably save my mum. Except my mum would tell me to choose my friends. So I don't know!

[Gaia]

1. I would save the five people.
2. I would kill one. There's no need to kill more than one.
3. Without a doubt I would save my mum. She is more than a friend.

[Gymnophoria]

1. I would untie the one person and change the direction of the train to that path (if that's possible)
2. I'd refuse to make the decision
3. Refuse to make that one too, hate questions like that

[Justin Bieber]

1. If I couldn't save the one person tied up in time, then I'd save the five other people...
2. I'd do "ee-ni, me-ni, mine-ee, mo" and pick a friend that way.
3. Save my mother.

[Spellbound]

1. The five other people.
2. I would pick one.
3. I would save my mom.

[Imagine]

1) I would save the five people.
2) I would kill one and let the others live.
3) Save my Mom.

[Elizabeth]

1. Save the person tied up.
2. Kill one.
3. Save my friends.

[.Brittany.]

1.Save the 5 people
2. Kill one
3. I don't know.. I'm leaning towards saving my mom, but I don't know..

[savealife723]

1.... If I had enough time, I would definitely untie the one person and then switch the train tracks so that no one would get hurt.

2 .... I would kill myself so that I wouldn't have to kill any of my friends.

3 .... I don't know. ): This question makes me sad.

[Speechless]

1. I would feel guilty because it's really not up to me to decide who lives and dies.. and if I couldn't untie the one person and switch tracks, I'd probably save the five

2. It's easy to say that I would kill a friend. But to actually decide which friend to kill... that'd be an impossible decision. I'm stuck on this one.

3. It's selfish to kill 6 people but I would save my Mum.

[TheLittleNinja]

1) This is probably really harsh, but I think I would let nature take it's course - if the train is set to kill 5 people, then that is what it is set to do. It may not be morally right - but I couldn't change it and be left with the guilt of that.

2) I would either refuse to make the decision, or ask them to take my own life instead of theirs. OR if that wasn't an option then I would do what Amy would do.

3) I HATE this question. I would have to save my Mum I guess - but I'd probably commit sucicde if I lost my friends to be honest.

[WillO'Wisp]

Wow...tricky questions. Well, I would have to say...

1. I would kill the one person because saving 5 lives instead of just one is more important.
2. Depends who that one friend was and the 3 friends were...if the one was my bestest friend in the whole world and the other 3 were friends I were not as close with, I'd have to save my bestest friend but I'd still feel really bad about not being able to save the others.
3. I would let my friends die and spare my mom, because my mom is a very important person in my life, no questions asked there, so definitely I would save my mom.

[Pelios]

1- Going with the fact that it's 5 against 1, I would try to save the most people I can.
2- I would ask my friends for their opinions but I probably would sacrifice myself I can’t really picture me killing one of my friends.
3- I would save my mom, I could not imagine what my life would be without her =/
Wow that was hard…

[FlyingTrue]

I can't answer two or three.

However for question 1, I would put the switch halfway between the tracks, causing the train to derail and go between path 1 and 2, everybody saved.

[bitesize]

This is something I'm not really comfortable thinking about or answering, to be honest, but for question one, for some reason my initial instinct would be to save the single person. I really don't know why. I know people are saying 'oh five lies are better than one...' but I'm just imagining how horrible it would be to die on your own like that.....maybe I'm just thinking into it too much. I don't like these questions.

[losing touch.]

1) If i'm understanding this right i would have to change the direction of the train to kill the 1 person, so if i didn't interfere that person would live. hmm, i wouldn't change the direction. I couldn't do that knowing that it would kill that person who would live otherwise.

2) i don't know.

3) Save my mum.

[emma01]

Originally Posted by QuackerJackWoop

1) This is probably really harsh, but I think I would let nature take it's course - if the train is set to kill 5 people, then that is what it is set to do. It may not be morally right - but I couldn't change it and be left with the guilt of that.

You are the one person to pick up on that! That's exactly why I asked the question Good work!

[emma01]

Originally Posted by bitesize

This is something I'm not really comfortable thinking about or answering, to be honest, but for question one, for some reason my initial instinct would be to save the single person. I really don't know why. I know people are saying 'oh five lies are better than one...' but I'm just imagining how horrible it would be to die on your own like that.....maybe I'm just thinking into it too much. I don't like these questions.

Hey, sorry these questions weren't meant to offend anyone and sorry if i offended you

[emma01]

Originally Posted by FlyingTrue

I can't answer two or three.

However for question 1, I would put the switch halfway between the tracks, causing the train to derail and go between path 1 and 2, everybody saved.

Haha someone is a cheeky genius

[Celestial.]

Hm, all really tough.

1. Honestly, I probably wouldn't move it. I'd be too scared.
2. I'd talk it through with everyone. I couldn't make a decision like that alone.
3. My friends. God, I hope my mum never sees this lol.

I'm not 100% sure on my answers, 'cause those are really hard questions.