Poll: Poll: What is your moral code?

[Ambitious Sloth]

Our moral codes are fickle things but I'm interested in what most people chose to do in the situations below. Their both similar to each other but different in their own ways.

Situation 1:
Your standing by a set of train tracks watching four men work on the railroad track when a train comes around the corner heading for the men. You can't shout or warn them or anything all you can do is watch... or act. next to you is a switch which if you pull it the train will change direction and will miss the four men but it will hit different large man working on the tracks going away from the men. Would you pull the switch?

Situation 2:
Your standing on a bridge that goes over the same set of train tracks looking at the four people working on the tracks when a train comes from around a corner and heads towards the four workers. This time next to you on the bridge is the large man and you know that if you push him off you could stop the train. Would you push him off?

 

[Mr.Bubbles]

I'mma go on a limb here and say 'search bar'.

Also, yes to both.

 

[Kilo24]

I think that by presenting the two together, you might be influencing the results. I'm not entirely sure, however.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Yes for both. Especially since he was already dead by the second one.

Technically you did these wrong as the person you have to sacrifice is supposed to be an innocent, rather than another worker.

 

[IHaveNoCoolness]

No to both.

By pulling the lever or pushing the man, I become the executioner. I'd rather be the witness to a tragedy of four, than a murderer.

 

[Jedoro]

No to both.

Given the circumstances, all of the workers are neutral, and I will not harm a neutral person, even if it means letting others die. Sacrifice is not something you can demand or force onto someone; it must be willingly given.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Why can't we discuss moral codes along the lines of Dungeons & Dragons? Makes it a whole lot simpler.
[small]Chaotic Neutral, BTW[/small]

 

[arc101]

no to both, witnessing death is not as morally wrong as causing them

 

[Kasawd]

Why can't we discuss moral codes along the lines of Dungeons & Dragons? Makes it a whole lot simpler. [small]Chaotic Neutral, BTW[/small]

This FTW. I am definetly a LE or TN kind of guy. LE if judgement can benefit me. When it comes to any other mediation, I am impartial.

 

[happysock]

No to both. if I don't act in the results I cannot be blamed for the outcome, although I did chuckle about pushing the bloke into the traintracks

 

[Mozared]

Yes for both. Especially since he was already dead by the second one.

This is what I love about the Escapist. You don't find wittyness like that anywhere.

No to both for me - I'd probably just distance myself from it as usual. I just feel like this isn't my choice to make.

 

[APPCRASH]

All rail workers and conductors have radios and GPS locators on all trains. They close the tracks before working on it and divert trains to a different route. Also, most tracks run off of a centralized grid control, so a normal civilian can not change the direction of a train. The likely hood of this choice coming up is out of the question.

Logic trumps moral choices.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Being NG, I'm going to turn and walk away from both scenarios, ie: No to both. I'd probably answer differently if one of the workers was someone I knew was important either to the world or to me.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Figure out a way to kill them both, just to be thorough.

 

[Grayjack]

No to both. If I pushed the lever or the man, I would basically be executing the large man.

 

[Abedeus]

No to both.

Especially since I would be the killer, and in this case, those people are too blind or stupid to watch out for a GIANT AND LOUD TRAIN. I mean, trains are so loud, it's possible to hear them 2 kilometers away. I always hear the midnight train going through a train station on the other side of town.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Situation 1:
I wouldn't let four men die rather than just one, it's simple math to me. And I wouldn't feel guilt I would feel heroic for saving the most lives possible.

Situation 2:
Sorry buddy I'm not dying for you, you shouldn't have been standing there.

I don't think I'll be going near any trains after this post.

 

[The Shade]

It'd be a tragedy, to be sure, but if I influence the outcome than I become responsible for a death. If I do nothing, I am simply a witness to an accident.

 

[Cakes]

No to the first one. It's those dumbasses fault for standing on the tracks where a train is coming; the other man has done nothing. No for the second, same reason.

 

[Smudge91]

The choices are the same but at a different view point really, the 4 men or the fat guy. So i'd go for both as losing one is better than losing 4 but if the person was younger than me and more talented or if he was stephen fry i'd stop the train and die. But then again ethics and morals are all just so subjective.