哈佛大学公开课《公正该如何做是好》第一课英文字幕.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 Funding for this program is provided by...Additional funding provided by...This is a course about justice and we begin with a story.Suppose youre the driver of a trolley car, and your trolley car is hurtling down the trackat miles an hour. And at the end of the track you notice five workers working on the track.You try to stop but you cant, your brakes dont work.You feel desperate because you know that if you crash into these five workers, they will all die.Lets assume you know that for sure.And so you feel helpless until you notice that there is, off to the right, a side track and at the endof that track, there is one worker working on the track.Your steering wheel works,so you can turn the trolley car,if you want to,onto the side trackkilling the one but sparing the five.Heres our first question:whats the right thing to do?What would you do?Lets take a poll.How many would turnthe trolley caronto the side track?Raise your hands.How many wouldnt?How many would go straight ahead?Keep your hands up those of youwho would go straight ahead.A handful of people would,the vast majority would turn.Lets hear first,now we need to beginto investigate the reasonswhy you thinkits the right thing to do.Lets begin with those in the majoritywho would turn to goonto the side track.Why would you do it?What would be your reason?Whos willing to volunteer a reason?Go ahead. Stand up.Because it cant be rightto kill five peoplewhen you can onlykill one person instead.It wouldnt be rightto kill five if you could killone person instead.Thats a good reason.Thats a good reason.Who else?Does everybody agreewith that reason? Go ahead.Well I was thinking its the same reasonon / with regardto the people who flew the planeinto the Pennsylvania fieldas heroes because they choseto kill the people on the planeand not kill more peoplein big buildings.So the principle therewas the same on /.Its a tragic circumstancebut better to kill oneso that five can live,is that the reasonmost of