In 4/28/2006 Radio Lab (PBS Amazing Podcast) did a show on morality. They tell the moral choice people will make: The program begins with a moral conundrum. Y

In 4/28/2006 Radio Lab (PBS Amazing Podcast) did a show on morality. They tell the moral choice people will make: The program begins with a moral conundrum. You're working with a crew doing track repairs (presumably, using heavy equipment such that you can't hear much else) when you happen to look up to see a locomotive rushing towards five of your buddies who are working on the tracks. But just as quickly you realize that you're standing next to a rail-switch which you could use to divert the train to a second track on which only one of your workmates is standing. Should you throw the switch? Ninety percent of a great-many people who've been polled say they would throw the switch. The next scenerio has you and a coworker (a very large fellow) working on a footbridge above the tracks. Again, you look to see the locomotive bearing down upon five of your friends who are working on the tracks. You quickly realize that the only way you can stop the train is to push the big guy standing next to you off the footbridge, whereupon his massive body will stop the train (yes, I know, but just go with it). Should you push your coworker in front of the locomotive? Ninety percent of a great-many people polled say they would not push the man in front of the train, even if by doing so they could save the other five men. Now we have your in a car and it could choice to turn right or left into a tree killing you or continue straight and kill 5 children who were crossing the road. What would you want your car to do?