Old Ethical Dilema

[Mirage]

(Particularly for those who said they wouldnt kill anyone in the thread about killing people)

You are on an uncontrollable train headed towards a rail switch. There are five people tied down to one branch of the track and one person tied to the other. You can leave the switch alone and it will kill the five or you can switch the track and it will kill the one. What do you do?

You're still not killing anyone. Unless you're the one who caused the train to become uncontrollable in the first place. What you're doing is minimizing casualities caused by a disaster outside of your control.

I would switch it, assuming I could turn on my logic circuits in time, and not just stand by and watch things happen, incapable of making a decision in the heat of the moment. It's not like this is any sort of realistic situation that I have experience with, so who knows what I would have actually done. I can pretend to be Jack Bauer on the internet but I'm not really IRL.