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The Trolley Problem

In the 1960s a philosopher called philipa foot came up with this this conundrum. The idea was that we were able to explore our own ethical frameworks as human beings. If you're on a train and for some reason five people are tied to the track in front of your train, do you switch tracks to run over one person or do you let the train carry on and kill those five people? It's an interesting thought experiment i would say but it's only a thought experiment so the trolley problem what actually came back in the 1960s.

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