NAME: Keaven Rold D.

Formilos DATE: SEPTERMBER 01, 2021

COURSE/YEAR: BSME-2 SCORE: _________________

LEARNING ACTIVITY
Direction: In a letter-size bond paper, do the following activities and submit it online on our Google
Classroom on the prescribed submission date.

Activity 1: IDENTIFICATION
Direction: On a letter-size bond paper, write your answer to the question below.

1. Name some skills required to be a moral agent.

1. Reasoning
2. Recognition
3. Response
4. Discernment
5. Accountability
6. Character
7. Motivation
8. Leadership

EXERCISE 1: The Runaway Train: A "thought experiment"

Imagine you are standing on a bridge over two narrow ravines, each with rail tracks at its base.
In the distance you see a runaway train speeding along the tracks. It is heading towards the first ravine
in which there are five people. You cannot stop or slow the train, but you are standing next to a lever,
which you can pull to switch the train to the tracks heading into the second ravine. Unfortunately, there
is one person in the second ravine.

You have two options:

(a) Do nothing (the train will kill the five people in the first ravine) or
(b) Pull the lever to diver the train (this will kill one person in the second ravine).
Answer the following questions:
1. Which option do you choose? option (a) | option (b)
2. Select one statement from the list below that most closely reflects your values

a.) Five lives are more important than one life.

b.) One life is just as important as five lives.
c.) What matters is not what I do but whether I am virtuous.
d.) All moral wrongs and rights are just a matter of opinion.
e.) None of the above

3. Further information
Now imagine that you are still on the bridge. You do not have mobile phone access or any other
method of communicating for help. The people on both tracks can shout to you.

Setting your previous decision aside, for each of the six statements below, please tick the box to
show if you would pull/not pull the lever if you had only that ONE piece of extra information.

I would I would not

Statement pull the pull the
lever lever

A. The person in the second ravine asks you to divert the train to avoid killing
the five in the first ravine.

B. The five people in the first ravine ask you not to divert the train to the
second ravine.

C. The five people in the first ravine are convicted criminals, and the person
in the second ravine is a world-famous cancer specialist on the verge of a
breakthrough.
 D. The five people in the first ravine are a team of world-famous cancer
specialists on the verge of a breakthrough, and the person in the second
ravine is a convicted criminal.

E. The five people in the ravine are in a permanent vegetative state (i.e., so
brain-damaged they are considered permanently unaware of the world),
and the person in the second ravine is not brain-damaged.

F. The five people in the first ravine are not brain-damaged, and the person
in the second ravine is in a permanent vegetative state.

4. Explain your reasoning:

In the dilemma or the scenario, I’m the one who is responsible to pull the lever in order to switch the
train to the tracks heading into the second ravine which can save the lives of the five people and letting
the one person die. So, based on my answers in the No.#3 (Further Information) all the checks were on
the “I would pull the lever”, which it reflects my decision to save the five people instead of saving the one
person on the second ravine. This is just the only option that I have in order to save many lives as I can.
On the statement in letter C. “The five people in the first ravine are convicted criminals, and the person in
the second ravine is a world-famous cancer specialist on the verge of a breakthrough”, my decision is still
to save the five people or the five convicted criminals instead of the one person or the world-famous
cancer specialist on the other side, this is not for the sake of being a criminal or I’m on the side of the
criminals, but I’m responsible in saving lives as many as I can. I don’t mind any professionality, being a
famous, and being criminal but I care about lives. I also valued the one person’s life on the second ravine
because every life is important, but the only option or choice that I have is to pull the lever in order to
save many lives that is also really matter. If somebody tells me that I killed the one person on the second
ravine, I would tell them that there’s a distinction between killing and letting die. After all, pulling the
lever does not inflict direct harm on the person but this was the decision that letting the one person died
in order to save many lives, because all moral wrongs and rights are just a matter of opinion.