Either way, somebody will die, they don't have time to jump off of the tracks.

Do you pull the lever?

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all the days were a sun-drenched haze
while the salt spray crusted on the windowpanes...

There's also the fact that ethical dilemmas are made of fail. You're never going to be in a situation like this; they only serve to make you beat yourself (or have others beat you up) for no good reason.

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Let yourself be enchanted,
You just might break through
To ever ever after

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I don't understand... why aren't ethical dilemmas intellectual? Morality is a large part of what makes us human. Studying and comprehending it is quite significant.

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First because they don't honestly reflect what people would really do in that kind of situation because those situations simply don't exist. Second because the responses are rarely based on logic and reasoning and usually based on an emotional response, whether people want to admit to that or not.

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Let yourself be enchanted,
You just might break through
To ever ever after

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If you were in this kind of situation, you would NOT have time to even think about it. It's a split-second decision, however you want to look at it. Nobody here can say they know what they'd do.

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There's that, too.

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Let yourself be enchanted,
You just might break through
To ever ever after

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I would choose to save my close family. I love my mom and all, but my other family memembers have had more of an impact on my life.

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Mortality does not exist and its just a matter of whatever the hell happens.

For mortality to make sense, you must have the "end goal". That is, what it is that we are suppose to achieve. If it is a peaceful humane society, the question is whether that moral lets us achieve this.

For this situation, its quite tricky.
You must find what you think is best of the result, and go with that.

Mortality is not an entity you can point at.