Consider the following scenario: 

You are walking near a trolley-car track when you notice five people tied to it in a row. There is a trolley hurtling toward them, out of control. A lever is within your reach; if you pull it, it will divert the trolley to a sidetrack, saving the five, but killing another person, who is tied to that spur. 

Explain how utilitarianism, Kant's ethics, and virtue ethics would decide the correct moral course of action?

 

 

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