Train and Children

*sarcastic tone* Great! Just great!! There will be a Chemistry test tomorrow and Mathematics test the day after. Can't update much in blog. Anyway, just something I post for the sake of updating. >.>

Hope the title pique your interest. I want to make this post really thought-provoking so hope you all bother to read it finish even if it bores you (I hope not >_<). In thinking skills class, our teacher gave us a situation and asked our opinions regarding it. Let's see if you can figure out the best solution to it!

Story:
There were a railroad track that was diverged into two. One of it is no longer in use. Another was in used. On the used track, five kids were playing on it. On the unused track, only a kid was playing on it by himself. Suddenly a train appeared!

Picture yourself in this situation. You viewed the whole situation and you're near a "track-switching" device that by pulling it, the train will switch track instead. What would you do? Sacrifice a child to save five others? Or sacrifice five to save one?

Think carefully, picture this situation clearly as though it is real. A split-second decisions can cost a lot of people's lives. What would you do?


Think hard!


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Most of you would probably said sacrifice the one child to save five others. You all would probably think that it is better to save five lives than one instead. However, can we view human lives as objects that has a specific value in it? A child's life is as precious as five others, there's no value to it. Should the smart and obedient kid who played in the unused track be sacrificed just for the sake of the other ignorant kids that chose to play at the used track? Sadly, this is the case of the society nowadays. The minority are often sacrificed for the majority's benefits, even if they were in the wrong.

The supposedly correct answer was don't switch the track. As if you do so, the train not only kill the smart child on the unused track, but might kill hundreds other passengers in the train. The track was unused most probably there were something wrong with it and might lead the train to derail. And, there were five kids on the used track. One of them are bound to realise the train was coming and alerted the others to move away quickly. Sadly for the child in the unused track, he will never expect a train will suddenly come and for sure will die.

Don't be afraid to make a decision just because it seems morally wrong but might not be just because majority choose another decision. An unpopular decision might be the correct one. Anyway, human always make mistakes.... that is why, they have eraser on pencil XD

Thought-provoking?

Betsy