NOface wrote:Marcelien wrote:NOface wrote:
I feel like they were biased toward the people who switched the tracks. They discribed them as brave and courageous to make a decision no one else could while they don't really talk about other participants reasoning for not switching the tracks.
maybe a little, but the whole point of that "problem" is to see what people would do. and actively doing something i think is better than just not doing anything. but its not exactly a "good" type of active. though they tried to do what was morally right.
I would not have pulled it for more reasons. First, since there is more people on track 1 there is statistically more of a chance someone will notice the train and move from the tracks. Also, the person on the track 2 is on the phone and there is more of a chance he will not hear the train coming. Bedside that, you don't know who those people are, so if you save 5 bad people and kill one good, that is going to fuck you up more than killing one person. Also, if you do pull the ladder, you are directly connected to the dead of that one person.
But that is not my point, my point is some of those people made reasoning similar to this but were in the end portrayed as "less courageous" just because they act more with the brain then with emotion.
all of them have headphones to protect their hearing tho. so its also likely none of them would notice, and it would kill 5 people. tbh, i think its more likely the person on the phone would hear it, cus they dont have protective headphones on.