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These ethics standards say yes, because no discrimination between people is allowed, only number of them matters.

• thisacctforreal 8y ago
  At least incentives for carpooling won’t disappear.
• king_phil 8y ago
  That's not correct. German Federal Constitutional Court already decided that you can't weigh the number of lifes. The decision was based on "can we shoot down a plane and kill 300 when the plane would crash into a stadium and kill 30.000". You can't shoot the plane down (legally).
  • zaarn 8y ago
    IIRC if there was a situation in form of "3 children on road" and "1 old lady on the sidewalk" and you only had a couple seconds to react, you would be fine hitting either, there is a concept of "Übergesetzlicher Notstand" (emergency beyond the law) which hits exactly these rather rare and morally ambiguous situations. The trolley problem as bystander is a different thing and generally not acting is the legally safer option though in both cases the likely sentence would be minor through various means. edit/additional note: while you can't shoot down the plane legally and no soldier will be obligated to follow such an order, they would likely also fall under the "Übergesetzlicher Notstand". It's not a legal basis but simply a defense.