A Trolley Incident Report

Orphan trains and Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film "The orphan Trains" tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A People's History of the United States 1492-present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as street gangs had female auxiliaries, they also had farm leagues for children (These are the Good Old Days, 19). During the time of the late 1800's and early 1900's many people were trying to help children. Progressive reformers, often called

The trolley problem is a hypothetical scenario created by philosopher Phillipa Foot in 1967 to challenge ones moral beliefs on what action they would take in two difficult scenarios. There are many adaptions to the original scenarios, however for the purpose of this essay the two scenarios can be described as follows.

Sandel opened his discussion with the audience through four stories followed by audience responses to, What's the right thing to do?" Story one was about five workers on a trolley which does not have working breaks. If the trolley crash, all five passengers will die. However, there is a worker working on the track. The moral dilemma is, do they allow the trolley to keep straight and crash killing all five passengers, or do they use the steering wheel to turn, resulting in the death of the worker that is working on the track?

• Carol asked about the progress with Homecrest House. I told Carol this was in progress.

The introduction of the trolley car (or cable car) at the turn of the century to cities revolutionized urban form. While railroads had already existed for some time, they were still primarily used for commerce, industry, and long distance travel. The trolley car however, directly impacted local urban dwellers and workers. Surprisingly, the first electric streetcar was not in New York City, nor in Chicago, but rather it was first used in Richmond, Virginia in 1880 (Brooklyn Historic Railway Association). The streetcar then became the most efficient and popular mode of transportation in cities for the next 50 years. It was in this era, that the foundation was laid for suburbanization and the rise of the automobile in the earl 1920´s. Workers

After visiting two landlords, on Friday the 22 we were finally getting to see the Castillo apartments. Having looked at the apartments online my friends and I really wanted to go and see them in person. On the way to the appointment, Megan and I talked about the places we were going to see and which things we liked more about

The trolley problem is a hypothetical experiment in philosophy that involves an emergency rescue where an uncontrolled trolley travels down a track towards a group of five workers. A bystander happens to be standing next to a switch that can choose to flip the switch and divert the trolley and save the five, however, diverting the track towards a line which has only one worker on it. This problem poses a question on the rights of people sacrificing themselves or others for a better outcome. In this essay, I agree that it is permissible for the bystander to intervene and divert the track in order to save the five workers, resulting in the death of one. From an entirely utilitarian viewpoint, it is important to provide the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people (Smart 1973). However, it is important not to infringe upon the rights of others directly.

Judith Jarvis Thomson presents an ethical dilemma entitled The Trolley Problem in The Monist. The problem describes a situation in which a trolley car is moving quickly and out of control on a train track towards five people who are tied to the tracks; you have the power to pull a lever, change the direction of the trolley car and save those five people – at the expense of the life of one person who is on the track the car was diverted to (Thomson 1397). The choice to be made is not just about whether or not one should pull the lever though. The problem dictates a choice about whether one would kill, in the case of choosing to pull the lever to kill the one person and save the five, or letting die, in which case nothing is done and the five are killed because of the lack of action taken (Thomson 1398). Thomson believes it would be incorrect to turn the trolley and willingly choose to kill one person, rather than allow the five to die, but the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stewart Mill must be analyzed to determine whether they would agree with Thomson, or have a different view from Thomson as well as one another. When considering J.J. Thomson’s Trolley Problem, the philosophies of Kant and Mill must be fully analyzed and expressed to determine the most plausible perspective to be taken by both philosophers on the issue. There are strengths, weaknesses and criticisms of both ethical arguments, and these will be considered as well in the analysis.

In this paper, I will explicate how a Utilitarian and a Kantian would understand the Trolley Problem and describe why I consider the Utilitarian approach to fare better in the case of the Trolley Problem. On one hand, a Utilitarian, a believer in the philosophy of Utilitarianism, believes that a morally admirable action is one that helps the maximum number of people. A Kantian, on the other hand, is a believer and follower of the Kantian ethics, which fundamentally preach that the correctness or wrongness of one’s actions depends on if one carries out one’s duty, and not on the consequences of one’s actions. In order to further understand the perspectives of these two philosophies, I will explain how they would comprehend the Trolley Problem, which is, essentially, a theoretical moral predicament where a trolley is speeding down a railway track and five people are tied to the track and a bystander has two options: either pull a lever, divert the train to an alternate railway track with one person on it and kill that one person and save five people, and thus intentionally commit homicide, or the bystander doesn’t pull the lever and lets five people die, therefore submissively allowing five deaths.

If you were given an ultimatum that could in the end hurt someone, would you do it? Philosophy is all about figuring out what people truly think. Their are many tests over the years that are simply to find out how many people would choose a moral route opposed to choosing the safe route. Mathew Liao who is the director for the MA program in bioethics wrote an article about the trolley case that Judith Thompson came up with in 1976. December of 2008 until June of 2009 their was a test done to 145 subjects to see how they would respond to the two following trolley case's. The first one is labeled standard, and the second is push. These two different case's are to prove that although it is human nature to answer a question with the moral response you will notice if you change one variable

Morality is definitely a human production as it is evidently that human creates rules based on morally correct or incorrect. The definition of moral relativism is the position that moral or ethical propositions do not reflect objective or universal moral truths, but instead make claims refer social, cultural, historical or personal circumstances. In the ethical view that there are no absolute or universal moral truths. It follows from this view that people with opposing moral viewpoints can equally be right. The three trolley problem issue provides an evidence to moral relativism as different reactions occur based on various circumstances.

On Sunday, July 19th at approximately 10:04 AM, I accidently damaged the back window of the I.T electric truck.

Thank you for the updating on your field trip to Oliver Street. It's always a right thing to do to take care of the issues when you were on the site, planned, or unplanned.

We were all meeting at Manha’s house me, Lulu, and Ternia we decided to all go to Manha’s house for a meeting I was the first one there so Manha and I went and talked for a little while then we went outside. We decided to walk around the block until the rest of them came but just as we were walking away when their cars pulled up to the driveway. We ran to them and told them we were going on a walk.