Suppose you're the driver of a trolley car, and your trolley car is hurtling down the track at 60 miles an hour.
假设你是一名电车司机,你的电车以60英里/小时的速度,在轨道上飞驰。
I think we have an app that's like, "Next Muni" here in the city.
我们有一个“下一趟有轨电车”的应用程序。
You feel desperate because you know that if you crash into these five workers, they will all die.
你此时极度绝望,因为你深知,如果电车撞向那五名工人,他们全都会死。
such as a street car or bus which, if there's a traffic accident,
比如,有轨电车或公车,如果有交通事故,
I ride, they call it Muni, but it's the bus system here.
我乘坐这里人所称的有轨电车。
The cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge, North Beach.
有轨电车、金门大桥,还有北滩。
An oil truck as long as a railroad car was behind him.
一辆像有轨电车那么长的,油罐车停在了他身后。
He would fall over the bridge onto the track right in the way of the trolley car.
他就会摔下桥,正好摔在电车轨道上挡住电车。
And now, you're not the driver, you really feel helpless until you notice standing next to you, leaning over the bridge is a very fat man.
但你不是电车司机,你真的爱莫能助,直到你发现,在你旁边,靠着桥站着的,是个超级大胖子。
Your steering wheel works, so you can turn the trolley car, if you want to, onto the side track killing the one but sparing the five.
而你的方向盘还没坏,只要你想,就可以把电车转到侧轨上去,牺牲一人挽救五人性命。
It's a tragic circumstance but better to kill one so that five can live, is that the reason most of you had, those of you who would turn? Yes?
虽然是悲剧,但牺牲一人保全五人依然是更正确的选择,这就是大多数人选择把电车开上侧轨的理由吗?
You're standing on a bridge overlooking a trolley car track.
你站在一座桥上,俯瞰着电车轨道。
How many wouldn't? How many would go straight ahead?
有多少人会让电车继续往前开?
In a way, we're back to the questions we started with about trolley car and the organ transplant.
某种程度上,我们又回到了最初的问题,即之前的电车和器官移植问题。
You try to stop but you can't, your brakes don't work.
你无法让电车停下来,因为刹车坏了。
How many would turn the trolley car onto the side track?
有多少人会把电车开到侧轨上去?
And down the track comes a trolley car, at the end of the track are five workers, the brakes don't work, the trolley car is about to careen into the five and kill them.
电车沿着轨道从远处驶来,轨道的尽头有五名工人,电车刹车坏了,这五名工人即将被撞死。
Well, I guess in the first case where you have the one worker and the five, it's a choice between those two and you have to make a certain choice and people are going to die because of the trolley car, not necessarily because of your direct actions.
我认为,在第一种情况中是撞死一个还是五个,你只能在这两者中选择,不管你做出的是哪一个选择,总得有人被电车撞死,而他们的死,并非你的直接行为导致。
You have control over that whereas you may not have control over the trolley car.
你的行为是可控的,而电车则是不可控的。
The trolley car is a runaway thing and you're making a split second choice.
电车已失控,而你必须在那一瞬间做出选择。
This time you're not the driver of the trolley car, you're an onlooker.
这次你不再是电车司机了,只是一名旁观者。
They've been in a terrible trolley car wreck.
他们遭受了一次严重的电车事故。
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