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Test The trolley dilemma: scenario a
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QUESTION 1: What is the purpose of the "Trolley Dilemma"?
Teaching how to drive trams
Prove that most people are selfish
Explore the tension between different ethical principles in extreme situations
Prove that utilitarian logic is always the best
QUESTION 2: In Scenario A, what dilemma does the person next to the lever face?
Save five lives by actively causing the death of one, or do nothing and let five die
Decide whether the workers deserve to be saved
Choose between saving a friend or five strangers
Trying to stop the tram with his own body
QUESTION 3: What is the majority response when this scenario is raised?
Do nothing
Try to warn the workers by shouting
Sacrifice the five workers to save one
Pull the lever
QUESTION 4: What is usually the initial justification for the majority response?
An emotional justification, based on panic
A utilitarian justification: it is better for one person to die than for five to die
The belief that we have no right to intervene in destiny
The idea that a worker who is alone has less value
QUESTION 5: What is Scenario A of the dilemma?
In pushing one person onto the track to save five others
On a tram with five people inside that is going to crash
On a tram heading towards a single person, with the option to divert it towards five
On a tram heading for five workers, with the option to divert it to a track where there is only one worker
QUESTION 6: What happens if the person decides not to pull the lever?
Five people will die, but it will not be due to their direct action
One person will die
The six people will be saved
He will be considered to have committed murder
QUESTION 7: The majority's decision seems to be based on
The emotion of the moment
A principle of non-intervention
A rational calculation of the lesser of two evils
The idea that all lives are worth the same and cannot be chosen
QUESTION 8: In what decade did this famous thought experiment become popular?
In the 1950s
In the 1970s
In the 1990s
In the 2010s
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