Sentence examples for trolley examples from inspiring English sources

The Trolley examples and the Strategic/Terror Bomber examples have generated less controversy on this score.

For instance, our intuitions seem to be affected by whether we word our scenario in terms of killing or saving, and by the order in which the trolley examples are considered.

In Trolley, for example, where there is neither agency nor using in the relevant senses and thus no bar to switching, one cannot claim that it is better to switch and save the five.

Foot's example had the trolley driver making the choice, but Thomson modified the case so that it was a bystander, not the driver, who had to make the choice.

Admittedly some contemporary philosophers spend more time than they should fussing with contrived and arid examples of runaway trolleys and ticking time bombs.

The contrasting reactions to Trolley, Fat Man, Transplant, and other examples earlier given, are illustrative of this.

The questions that today's philosophers study may at first seem unrealistic — for example, when a runaway trolley is heading toward five people tied to a track, should you flip a switch to divert the trolley to another track where only one person is tied?

In 2014, for example, Coles admitted that its trolley collection services – which it contracted out – was vulnerable to exploitation and poor work practices.

In the time-honored example of the run-away trolley (Trolley), one may turn a trolley so that it runs over one trapped workman so as to save five workmen trapped on the other track, even though it is not permissible for an agent to have initiated the movement of the trolley towards the one to save five (Foot 1967; Thomson 1985).

(This could be the case, for example, when the one who switches the trolley does so to kill the one whom he hates, only knowing that he will thereby save the other five workmen).

He has a rare talent for wringing gold from the beigest of subjects and there are odd moments tonight when he does just that – miming how posh people treat their trolleys at Waitrose, for example, or the difficultly of hanging a clock on a wall, or the social awkwardness of using a revolving door.