Sentence examples for stops the trolley from inspiring English sources

Here it looks like by pulling the lever we would be using the large man merely as a means to saving the five, for unless he stops the trolley it will loop round and kill the five from the other direction.

You're trying to stop the trolley by using his body.

(You cannot stop the trolley by jumping yourself, only the fat man is heavy enough).

If you shove him onto the tracks, his body will likely stop the trolley.

(It won't help to jump yourself; you're too small to stop the trolley).

Now the only way to stop the trolley is to throw a heavy object in its path.

The only way to stop the trolley is to shove the man off the bridge and into the trolley's path, killing him but saving the five.

This is a case where our bystander is standing next to the trolley as before, the trolley is hurtling down the track about to kill the five, and the bystander has available to him a means for stopping the trolley.

Whereas in the first case, 15% of you thought it was prohibited to stop the trolley from hitting the five by killing the one or by causing the trolley to kill the one, in the Fat Man case, 78% of you 4/5 of the class thought that the act of turning or of stopping the trolley by putting in its way another person was morally prohibited.

In this case, rather than turning it onto a different track, the means he has available to him is to push a fat man off a bridge, thereby stopping the trolley in its tracks.

The only way to save the lives of the five workers is to push this stranger off the footbridge and onto the tracks below where his large body will stop the trolley.