Analysis Of The Fat Man And The Trolley's Car

Imagine if you had the ability to save the lives of five strangers but in order to do so you would have to sacrifice the life of another. What would you do? How would you decide what was the right thing to do? The majority of people will try and find the most ethical thing to do. Ethics is defined by a standard of behavior that tells humans how to act in certain situations. However, not all approaches will produce the same outcome, and even if they do produce the same outcome the process that was used to reach that outcome can be very different.
The ethical dilemma of “The Fat Man and the Trolleys Car was created by philosophers to determine how people would react to a life or death situation. “Suppose a runways trolley car was hurtling down the tracks and was about to kill five people. You are standing on a bridge above the tracks and are aware of the immediate disaster, you decide to jump on the track and block the trolley car. Although you will die, the five people will be saved. Just before your leap, you realize that you are too light to stop the trolley. Next to you, a fat man is standing on the very edge of the bridge. He would certainly block the

The utilitarian approach takes the personal reasons for doing something out of the decision, and makes it the choice simple. The right thing to do is to save as many people as possible and minimize the amount of harm done. So, is the case of “the Fat Man and the Trolley Car the decision is simple. Save five lives by sacrificing one other. Unlike when you use the virtue approach to analysis the ethical dilemma. When using the virtue approach the choice is much harder to make because you have to decide in that moment what kind of person you are or want to be. The utilitarian approach takes any personal motives out of the decision and make it so that the greatest amount of good will come out of that