The Bridge
Do you push him?
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The Bridge
Same runaway train, five people on the track. This time you're on a footbridge above it with a heavy stranger leaning on the rail. If you push him off, his body stops the train. Five live, he dies. Nobody would ever know it was you.
Do you push him?
Then ask
- If you pulled a lever yesterday to kill one and save five, what's different about your hands today?
- What if he were already leaning far enough that a nudge looked like an accident?
- What if he was the one who let the train loose?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.