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Question 1
One day, you wake up in hospital. In the bed next to you there is a famous singer. You are connected to him with tubes and machines. You have been kidnapped by the singer’s fans because the singer was dying. If you stay in the hospital bed, connected to the singer for 9 months, he will be cured, and you will be ok. No one else can save him. Should you stay in the hospital for 9 months?Would you stay in the hospital for 9 months?
Question 2
A train is running down a track fast. Five people are on the train track and they will be killed unless you flip a switch to change the train to another track, where it will kill one person.Should you flip the switch?Would you flip the switch?
Question 3
The train is running down a track where it will kill five people. You are standing on a bridge above the track and you can see that 5 people will soon die. You decide to jump on the track to stop the train. You will die, but five people will be saved.Just before your jump, you realize that you are too light to stop the trolley. Next to you, a fat man is standing on the very edge of the bridge. He would stop the train, but he would die. A small push and he would fall onto the track below. No one would ever know. Should you push him? Would you push him?
Question 4
You are in a cave with 5 people when a large rock falls and blocks the exit. Luckily, you spot another hole. "Big Jack" tries to go out first. But big Jack is too fat and gets stuck in the hole. He cannot move and that hole is the only way out. The water is coming up and, if you don’t get out soon, everyone but Big Jack (whose head is sticking out of the cave) will die. You find a stick of dynamite in your bag. It will not move the rock, but it can blast Big Jack out of the hole. Big Jack, hears your idea and asks “please don’t blow me up, I want to live!” He does not want to die, but you and the 4 others don’t want to die either! Should you blast Big Jack out? Would you blast Big jock out?
