Name: Doing the Right Thing [HarvardX Justice Course 01]
Uploaded: 2018-03-25T04:25:28.000Z
Duration: 23 min 38 s
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This is a course about Justice and we begin with a story

suppose you're the driver of a trolley car,

and your trolley car is hurdling down the track at sixty miles an hour

and at the end of the track you notice five workers working on the track

that if you crash into these five workers

would turn the trolley car onto the side track?

keep your hands up, those of you who'd go straight ahead.

A handful of people would, the vast majority would turn

now we need to begin to investigate the reasons why you think

it's the right thing to do. Let's begin with those in the majority, who would turn

Because it can't be right to kill five people when you can only kill one person instead.

Well I was thinking it was the same reason it was on

9/11 we regard the people who flew the plane

because they chose to kill the people on the plane

So the principle there was the same on 9/11

but better to kill one so that five can live

is that the reason most of you have, those of you who would turn, yes?

Well I think that same type of mentality that justifies genocide and totalitarianism

in order to save one type of race you wipe out the other.

so what would you do in this case? You would

you would crash into the five and kill them?

better that one should die so that five should live.

This time you're not the driver of the trolley car, you're an onlooker

standing on a bridge overlooking a trolley car track

the trolley car is about to careen into the five and kill them

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Doing the Right Thing [HarvardX Justice Course 01]

assume

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majority

situation