哈佛：公正课第1集 英文字幕.docVIP

第1集上 杀人的道德侧面 This is a course about justice. We begin with a story. Suppose youre the driver of a trolley car Your trolley car is hurtling down the track at 60 Mph. At the end of the track, you notice five workers are working on the track. You try to stop, but you cant your brakes dont work You feel desperate, because you know if you crash into these five workers they will all die but to soon you know thats for sure so you feel helpless until you notice, there is off to the right, a side track at the end of that track Theres a worker working on the track your steering wheel works so you can turn the trolley car, if you want to, onto the side track killing 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 turn the trolley car onto the side track Raise your hands How many wouldnt? How many would go straight ahead A handful of people would. A vast majority would turn Lets hear first. Now we need to begin to investigate the reasons why you think is the right thing to do. Lets begin with those in the majority Who would turn to go onto the side track Why would you do it? Would would be your reason? Who is willing to volunteer a reason? Because it cannt be right to kill five people when you could only kill one person instead it wouldnt be right to kill five if you could only kill one person instead Thats a good reason Who else? Does anybody agree with that reason? I think its the same reason on the 9/11 we regard the people who flew the plane into Pennsylvania field as heros because they chose to kill the people on the plane, and not kill more people in the building So the principle there is the same as 9/11 to tragic circumstance Better to kill one so that five can live Is that the reason most of you have those will turn? Lets hear now from those in the minority, those wouldnt turn I think thats the same type of mentality that justify genocide and totalitarianism in order to save one type