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    A switch operator sees a runaway train that cannot stop heading towards five workers on the track. The operator realizes they could divert the train onto a side track where one worker is alone, saving five lives but causing the death of one instead of doing nothing and allowing all five workers to be killed.

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    A switch operator sees a runaway train that cannot stop heading towards five workers on the track. The operator realizes they could divert the train onto a side track where one worker is alone, saving five lives but causing the death of one instead of doing nothing and allowing all five workers to be killed.

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    A switch operator sees a runaway train that cannot stop heading towards five workers on the track. The operator realizes they could divert the train onto a side track where one worker is alone, saving five lives but causing the death of one instead of doing nothing and allowing all five workers to be killed.

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    Imagine that you are an employee working for the train company as a switch operator.

    One day you see a train speeding down the track, its driver is in obvious distress. You
    realize that the train has had a malfunction and is unable to stop.

    You look ahead of the train and see five workers working on the track. If you allow
    the train to go ahead, it will surely kill all five.

    However, you could divert the train by switching tracks. On the alternate track, there
    is one worker, working alone.

    1. If you switch the train, you cause the death of one worker; if you do nothing, five
    will die. What will you do?

    2. What would you do when faced with a difficult moral choice?

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