

Human: I'm in a trolley on a train track.  Suddenly I see the tracks have split and on the path I'm on, there are people on the tracks!  they're incapacitated and can't move!  Is it ok for me to pull the lever to send my trolley on the other track to save them, even though there's a maintenance worker there fixing the track and he'll be killed instead?

Assistant:  The utility of the action of pulling the lever to save the people on the track can be analyzed from the perspective of various ethical theories, one of which is util



Human: I'm in a trolley on a train track.  Suddenly I see the tracks have split and on the path I'm on, there are people on the tracks!  they're incapacitated and can't move!  Is it ok for me to pull the lever to send my trolley on the other track to save them, even though there's a maintenance worker there fixing the track and he'll be killed instead?

Assistant:  The utility of pulling the lever to save the lives of the incapacitated people on the other track, while potentially causing harm or death to the maintenance worker,
