Philosophy Case

Everyday society has to make decisions whether it is from what they will wear that day or to what they will cook that evening. But only very few have to make very serious decisions such as the choice engineer Bill has to make. Bill is faced with the ultimate burden of choosing to save one life over a hundred or hundred lives over one life. Many people at the thought of having to choose to save one life out of hundreds would probably break down instantly. But for engineer Bill he knows he has to make a decision, and it has to be a very quick one. From looking at the situation Bill has chosen to take the utilitarian step.

One way or another Bill will feel the guilt of his outcome. Realistically Bill should save little Sarah from the train tracks, and just allow the one hundred girls to die on that train. But we aren't talking realistically we are looking at the moral stand point of this situation. Morally Bill should save the one hundred girls on that train, and ultimately kill Sarah. For a second put yourself in engineer Bill's shoes. Your sitting down watching this little girl who comes to the train tracks every day, and just watches the trains come and go. But one particular day you see her messing around with something and she falls down. So like a good citizen you ran to help the little girl up because you hear the sounds of a train. When you reach her you see notice she has set the tracks off into another direction, and the direction that train is headed is into a deep ravine. Bill does see that if he put the tracks back he will kill Sarah but he will save the hundred girls. But if he doesn't and he frees Sarah he will have no time saving the hundred girls and they will drop into the ravine and die.

Let's look at it this way if little Sarah would have stayed home or her parents would have been a little more proactive and not allow their child to run off alone. Or even teaching her not to play with things she has no business playing with. Then the train would have continued to run the normal route. But because Sarah thought it was ok to mess with things you aren't sure of she caused the damage. You have a train coming full of one hundred innocent girls that know nothing of the track switch. And hadn't assisted in any of this, so what you're just supposed to let them die? Like I stated before we are talking morals here and not realistically. Little Sarah caused the destruction, so like many who do something they aren't suppose to shouldn't she too face her consequences of her actions.

Just think if Bill saved that one life, and he had to sit at the funeral of a hundred grieving anger families. The entire time he would have to answer so many what ifs and why questions. These families will never see their children again, and not only that they couldn't give them the proper burial service. All while little Sarah was alive and well playing with her baby dolls, and her family gave her a little talk about not playing at the train tracks.

Morally as a utilitarian Bills knows he has to save the one hundred girls, and kill Sarah. Bill is given the greatness number of people what they want. That's just like voting for the President you don't take the less amount of votes, and say here is you're new President. You take the highest number of votes and it determines the outcome. Just like here Bill will be pleasing the greatness number of people and taken one life based on the outcome. He doesn't allow any threshold