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<p>In Avodah Digest V25#263, R'Micha transcribed from a shiur of RAR-R:<br>
> The decision was that halachically, one must passively allow those 50<br>
or so die rather than actively murder 10. <<br>
Would this be similar to the "runaway train" case (described on many Webpages, e.g. <a href="http://www.ritacarter.co.uk/page11.htm">http://www.ritacarter.co.uk/page11.htm</a>), 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. <br>
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All the best from<br>
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager</body></html>