How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language
Regarding the Trolley problem, it doesn&#x27;t make sense to push someone off a bridge in order to save 5 people, this is very different from just flicking a switch for several reasons:<p>- There is a chance that this plan might fail and 6 people would get killed instead of 5.<p>- Maybe there is a reason why the 5 people are tied to train tracks - Honest people don&#x27;t usually end up like this - Maybe they&#x27;re in the mafia and their deaths would be an expected consequence of their high-risk criminal lifestyle. On the other hand, the guy standing on the bridge is more likely to be a regular person who did nothing wrong.<p>- You would go to jail for manslaughter.<p>- You would psychologically damage yourself by pushing the person off a bridge.<p>- Maybe you have an undiagnosed case of schizophrenia and the 5 people on the tracks are not real. The odds of it being an illusion (and that you are crazy) are probably higher than it being real - It&#x27;s quite arrogant to trust your own senses (to the point of killing someone) when you&#x27;re confronted with such an incredibly unlikely situation.