What an interesting way to put the trolley problem: > There's a runaway trolley barreling down a railway. Further down the tracks there are five people tied up

What an interesting way to put the trolley problem: > There's a runaway trolley barreling down a railway. Further down the tracks there are five people tied up and unable to move. They will die once the trolley reaches them. > You are stood on a footbridge with an innocent bystander. You can push him off the bridge, blocking the trolley and killing him, but saving the other 5 people. Or you can do nothing and the 5 people will die. Because there are not two, but three solutions: you can jump off the bridge and block the trolley with your own death. I wonder how many are going to give that answer. I can see it coming from two kinds of people: the severely depressed to the point of being suicidal, people who have reached a spiritual state of bliss and awareness to value their own life and those of the other men as equally important AND they feel they are unattached enough to let go while the other 6 men may need more time in their lives.