I'm sure you know the train question. If a train is going along and the conductor sees a child on the rails, but can change rails to another track, but that one has five. What do you do?
The actual answer is changing tracks has the train going slow so it doesn't derail. I have had family in the train engineering business for generations. So the actual answer is, the brakes you're going slow enough to stop easily.
I realized that yesterday while watching some old Doctor Who near a train station.
Anyway, the reason why I bring it up is I am arguing with someone that the answer is there, but not given by the original question. Also, no one thought to ask anyone in the train industry. I looked the guy up, and he's a lefty. It makes me realize that much of our society is based on the idea of false choices. There is always another answer, but the media and government act as if there is no alternatives. Then we make sure to ignore all evidence pointing to alternatives. This is society, trying to make a choice while the train stops on its own.
Which is a bullshit "ha ha I'm kirk and I cheated the kobiashi maru" response. Doesn't work.
I honestly do not agree, because that would mean this person thinks it is 100% okay and not at all "taking lives" to stand by and watch 5 people die when you literally could just pull a lever to save them.
Allow me to put this another way: What if there is a group of children drowning in a pool, and you can push a button which empties the pool to save all the children, but instead of pushing the button, you crouch at the edge of the pool and morbidly watch them die because it makes your dick hard to watch children struggle and die.
According to the non-puller, you'd be 100% A-ok to behave that way because hey, you didn't have any duty or obligation to save those kids since you didn't throw them into the pool to begin with, so you never engaged in an "intentional action that directly results in taking a life", so no judgments, my guy!
Yeah, I call bullshit. Everyone knows the concept of how you can cause an outcome through an act or omission. Everyone knows how lies of omission. The fact that society does not punish omissions means shitty selfish humans are trained to always default to omission in order to evade getting in trouble.
A real man would have 5 dead on his conscience. The selfish coward lies to himself and says those 5 were somehow not his fault as a cope.