The Trolley Car Dilemma is a famous ethical question, and used in many IB Theory of Knowledge classes. Here’s a useful video on it (in class, I’d periodically stop it to have students say what they would do):
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Nice for critica thinking classes ^^
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Noooooooooooooo I spelt critical incorrectly TT TT Damn you fat fingers !!! TT TT
This is also the subject of a BBC documentary called “Would you kill the big guy” available as a podcast, and with a pretty cool summary in part two at about 4.05mins:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/05/100423_will_you_kill_big_guy_one.shtml