Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
You see a runaway trolley moving toward five tied-up (or otherwise incapacitated) people lying on the tracks. You are standing next to a lever that controls a switch. If you pull the lever, the trolley will be redirected onto a side track, and the five people on the main track will be saved. However, there is a single person lying on the side track. You have two options:
1. Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track.
2. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.
Which is the more ethical option? Use three vocabulary terms to support your argument.
Parameters:
· 1500 words (can be between 1400-1600, but if you go below 1400 words or above 1600 words you will have points deducted.)
· MLA or APA format
o MLA Format Standards: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html
o APA Format Standards: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html
o THESE CITES WILL GENERATE THE CITATIONS FOR YOU:
§ http://www.citethisforme.com/
§ http://www.bibme.org/apa
o Remember that if you do not cite properly it is minus 10 points.
· Use Three Vocabulary Terms we’ve discussed in class. You can use the terms discussed in any of the following Prezi’s:
o https://prezi.com/necoaw-ow5wc/fallacies/
o Welcome to Critical Thinking: https://prezi.com/uknh5g4fhdvf/welcome-to-critical-thinking/
o Skepticism/Epistemology: https://prezi.com/wwqkftojn_j9/skepticism-epistemology/
o Epistemology: https://prezi.com/_8_najayl5kt/epistemology/
o Metaphysics: https://prezi.com/v8jk6ou7nvpm/metaphysics/
o Libertarianism: https://prezi.com/hyvzhsnde9s1/to-be-or-not-to-belibertarian/
o Social Constructs: https://prezi.com/mbk-a8u_evby/social-constructions/
o Political Philosophy: https://prezi.com/zhpblznvniow/political-philosophy/
o Political Philosophy II: https://prezi.com/hdo23en5lous/political-philosophy-ii/
^^THIS IS THE PREZI THAT HAS THE TROLLEY EXPERIMENT
o Social Justice and Power: https://prezi.com/74yhk4zk2tqz/social-justice-and-power/
o You are allowed to use sources outside of these as well in order to make you argument. So I do not mind if you discuss philosophical concepts we haven’t gone over, but you must use at least three philosophical terms that WE HAVE gone over.
