Sentence examples for version of the trolley from inspiring English sources

Consider one version of the trolley problem: A runaway trolley is heading down the tracks toward five workers who will all be killed if the trolley proceeds on its present course.

But a flood of memes emerged anyway: the late Muhammad Ali towering over a knocked-out Harambe, an oddly lewd one featuring actor Danny Trejo, and one featuring Harambe in a version of the trolley problem.

In both versions of the trolley problem above, utilitarians say you should sacrifice one to save five, while deontologists say you should not.

So in versions of the trolley problem that involve physical contact, like the footbridge case above, harming one to save many is generally less acceptable than in versions that do not involve such contact, like the switch case.

Whereas 78% of you thought it was prohibited to have the trolley hit the fat man in that version of the scenario.

Notice, too, that this patient-centered libertarian version of deontology handles Trolley, Transplant et al. differently from how they are handled by agent-centered versions.

So let's start with the case of the trolley driver, driver of the trolley.

Yet the image of the "trolley dolly" lingers on.

Fungal buns spill out of the trolley's lower compartment.

Trolley tracks in the street, wires in the sky, the grooved wheel at the top of the trolley pole: a forgotten world.

Question: For Jim, the bystander, is it morally mandatory for him to turn the trolley so that instead of the trolley hitting the five, it hits the one?