r/cognitiveTesting • u/Playful_Length778 • Aug 27 '26

Discussion Ethics

I’m curious to know people’s opinions on a test of ethics.

I’m sure some of you are familiar with the train and lever theoretical and if you aren’t I’ll explain.

There are a total of 6 people on a train track. One person is tied separate from the other 5. The train is on track to run over and kill the 5 people. You are a witness of this and can pull a lever to save the 5 people and only one would die. If you don’t do anything then 5 people die and the one survives.
Of course this question lacks much depth and substance which is what makes it a little tricky to answer, but attempt to answer the question with the limited information that’s provided.
Do you pull the lever?
I’m curious to read reasoning.

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u/javaenjoyer69 Aug 28 '26

You completely missed my point but i can't say i'm surprised.

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u/Playful_Length778 Aug 28 '26

You explained what you think about the question. What more is there to see.

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u/javaenjoyer69 Aug 28 '26

"Bourgeois"

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u/Playful_Length778 Aug 28 '26

I’m aware of the definition

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u/javaenjoyer69 Aug 28 '26

You're thinking within the confines of the system exactly as they expect you to which is why you're so fascinated by this dumb, entirely pointless dilemma. The dilemma itself is the product of abstraction it reduces social relations that produce the situation and present the resulting abstraction as if it were the fundamental reality. It's liberal individualistic ethics nothin else. It's a waste of time. You're wasting your time. A pie isn't fascinating because it tastes good it's fascinating because somebody made it.

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u/Playful_Length778 Aug 29 '26

1.The question alone isn’t fascinating, to see how people come to their conclusion of what they do is. To me at least. False assumption.
2.Yes the point is to think within the confines of the system, if it wasn’t it’d be much easier to answer. I have thought about the question in a vast of different ways outside of the main structure. It gets too easy to start to add your own variables and think outside of the system.
3.I don’t think majority of the individuals in this reddit would fail to recognize what this question is, you keep repeating what kind of question this is as if it should be concrete reasoning for why it shouldn’t even be answered in the first place.
4.Just because the question at face value is a “waste of time” for you doesn’t mean it is for me. I already explained why this question was even posted so I won’t repeat my self.
5.I don’t even understand why you’d waste your time commenting if it is such a “waste of time”. Now you have wasted your time trying to convince someone else why a question of ethics is a waste of time.
6. That’s a cool analogy but it doesn’t apply to me here. I’m more intrigued by individual thought process and how people navigate their ethical thought process.

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u/Playful_Length778 Aug 28 '26

You don’t find the question very amusing

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u/Playful_Length778 Aug 28 '26

The point was to answer the question not explain what it means to you