What Is The Trolley Dilemmas?

Reading Response Essay 2
Although there are a lot of dilemmas we go over in class there are a couple that stand out to me. The trolley dilemma is a situation I personally hope I never encounter and the dilemma where if you had a ring that made you invisible. The dilemma with the trolley is a terrifying situation to be in if you are the one operating the tracks. Either way someone is going to die and that’s going to be on you. If I were the one operating the trolley tracks and I had to choose between killing one person and four people, I’m going to kill only the one. If the dilemma was altered a little too where the one person was my child and the other four were strangers then it’s a lot harder of a choice. Do you save your child and let four people die or vice versa? I really
My conscience would probably tell me to save the four but if I had the choice to save my son I’d have to do it. I don’t know if that’s the wrong thing to do but it’s the choice I would make. Now, let’s say we altered the dilemma even more. Say there was only one track with four people on it and then there was this innocent bystander next to the track and you had the choice to push that one person into the trolley to save the other four. Now in this situation if you were to push that one person into the trolley that would be considered murder where in the other dilemmas it was not. But, if we go with the same route as before where killing less is better then why not save the four by killing the bystander? The decision I would make would be to let the one bystander live because he had done nothing wrong and has no reason to die. I’m not saying that the four other