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Would you sacrifice one person to save five?

Eleanor Nelsen · TED

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About

Imagine you're watching a runaway trolley barreling down the tracks, straight towards five workers. You happen to be standing next to a switch that will divert the trolley onto a second track. Here's the problem: that track has a worker on it, too — but just one. What do you do? Do you sacrifice one person to save five? Eleanor Nelsen details the ethical dilemma that is the trolley problem. [Directed Eoin Duffy, narrated by Addison Anderson, sound by David Kamp].

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Eleanor Nelsen
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Psychology and the brain, Philosophy
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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