12/08/2011

Would You Kill 1 Person To Save 5??

Is it possible for you to kill one person to save 5 others?? According to a latest study, majority of the people are willing to let one person die to save 5 others, for minimizing the harm.
Studying human emotions an experiment was conducted by Michigan State University in which a virtual environment was created and people had option to save 5 by killing one. 90% of the cases chose to kill one person to save other 5.
This was a unique behavioral trait found on factual experiment results.
During the experiment participants watched a three-dimensional scene in which a runaway boxcar was heading toward five people who could not escape its path. The study participants were given the power to reroute the car to another track with only one person along the route. Ninety percent of them threw the switch and took the path with one person on track.
The participants were presented with a 3-D simulated version of the dilemma though a head-mounted device. Sensors were attached to their fingertips to monitor emotional arousal.

Read news at Michigan State University here

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