[Avodah] Ethical questions

[Michael Poppers]

In Avodah Digest V25#263, R'Micha transcribed from a shiur of RAR-R:
> The decision was that halachically, one must passively allow those 50
or so die rather than actively murder 10. <
Would this be similar to the "runaway train" case (described on many
Webpages, e.g. http://www.ritacarter.co.uk/page11.htm), in which a runaway
train is likely (ironically, because of the absence of a dead man's switch)
to kill a number of people if not stopped and in which you can take one and
only one action: throw a switch that definitely will save those people but
instead kill one other person?  Thanks.

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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