Thread: Silliness Is it unethical to be unethical?
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Old 09-03-2010, 03:53 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan View Post
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Or, to put it another way, at least the one guy has a chance of stepping off the track in time, whereas those on the train are helpless to protect themselves.
But presumably the guy on the track is under the same moral obligation - so, if he had some kind of remote control device to control the points he would be obligated to let the train run him down rather than switch the points? Now that would be a heroic thing to do, but could we say that he has an obligation to do it?
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