Who's life would you rather save?

"...illegal immigrants who add no value..."

Yeah, perhaps you should take a class in economics before you start talking out of your ass.

Wait..I get the main idea behind the story (the illegal immigrants or the executive) but there's something very uncomfortable about it..You said the fat man is standing next to the track, he was not going to die anyway, right? Wouldn't pushing him be a murder? If you're strong or big enough, you can throw yourself unto the track and push away the immigrants..There you go you saved both the immigrants and the fat man, and you would have a clear conscience :P

How I see it is - save one human or five humans...

I'm not sure. If we're keeping it as an imaginary scenario, and just answering based on what we believe, then the fat man gets it. I'd save the five immigrants.

However, if I'm trying to imagine this as a real event, assuming I even had the strength to push the man onto the track and that I knew that pushing the executive would save the immigrants, I don't think I could actually do it. It seems like my action would have to be quick, almost a reflex, and I can't imagine that I'd ever push someone onto a train track. I know that hypothetically, more people end up dead. I'm not sure what I'd do. I think what I'd want to happen, and what would actually happen, would end up being two different things.

It seems highly unlikely that a man could be fat enough to stop a train.

I'd kill the fat man and enslave the 5 immigrants.

The brakes on this train are inoperative because the executive cut the maintenance budget and hired illegal immigrants to do the work.

He then gave himself a raise.

I would happily shove the fatass executive into the path of the train, Immigrants or not.

This is a moral and ethics question. The first stage is to say you're the train driver and the breaks are not working. The track divides in front of you and you have the decision to go left which has 5 people working on the track and kill them all or to the right where there is only 1 person working on the track. Which route do you take?
Most people agree that it is ethically correct to go down the right route and kill 1 man.

The same dilemna can be formulated as the OP did. But in this case you have to act in pushing one man onto the track and saving 5 others.
Less people think it is ethically correct to push the 1 man and save the others. It's interesting to consider why one is more ethically correct than the other, when basically its the same dilemna.

If I have to choose between five strangers and an acquaintance I would choose the person I know. I'm only human

This poll and comments is the funniest thing ive read on here in a while.

For those saying he is racist, you all reacted to quickly to this story. He isn't pointing at any race, let alone he is hating on them. Wherever OP is from, he would probably consider that illegal emigrants of his country are also unproductive.

The 5 men. Not because the fat man is fat but because you would save 5 lives instead of 1.

This is a psychology question that I've seen before. When asked if you would rather save 5 people or 1 person, most choose the 5 people. When asked to kill one person to save 5 people, most choose not to kill the 1 person.

The immigrants and executive part are just additives that go along with other moral questions about saving "good" or "bad" people.

Either way, I'd choose not to kill. I'm not 'saving' the fat man. I'm just not being a murderer.

No one will die if u push the fatty on the tracks stupid!

I would let them die. If the only way to save them was to murder an innocent bystander. I wouldn't do anything. The economy has nothing to do with it.

I think everyone here is missing the point that they're ILLEGAL immigrants. Everyone just sees the word immigrant and goes into OMG moral high ground im a good person 21st Century PC rant. Like chill out. He's right, illegal immigrants can only take from society. Pay taxes? No. Pay National insurance? No. Drain on society.

I would save the fat man. I don't really care about illegal immigrants.

The five immigrants would push the fat man on the track.

Why push some random person against his will? He should decide if he wants to save those people... Not us... That would be concidered as murder.

the five people considering that the man is so fat he can slow a train and will mostly like die pretty soon of high blood pressure.

5 lives over one, but if immigrants were stupid enough to actualy sit on the tracks and wait till they die then be it. Why would someone who has family and life kill himself to save 5 trouble makers ?

Either ways in real life speculations, fat man wouldnt stop the train by jumping and immigrant would obviously not sit on the tracks, therefor arguing over such a thing is pointless.

Executives... add value? Bfff.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Oh, you weren't joking you say?

=_= You seriously believe that one fat executive is worth more than five hard working immigrants? What country do you live in, again?

If it's the USA, this country was BUILT by immigrants, so up your's bitch.

No, this isn't about race. Hell, we're ALL immigrants, or at least the DESCENDANTS of them. The only one's who aren't are the fucking Native Americans, and we decided it was okay to kill most of those guys.

"You're looking into this too much." "You're being too serious." And you, my frenemy, are a terrible troll.

Sit on a stick and rotate for a while, will you? ^_~

Your thought process is not the same. You will find out soon that you will be the minority in this argument. You will lose because you seem pretty biased on the thought.

Let the fat man decide for himself if he wants to jump onto the track to save the other men. Pushing him in is murder.

What kind of executive?

I've heard of this scenario before, or something similar. The fat man should obviously the the one who dies. I'd rather no-one has to die, but one man is always worth less than 5 men.