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But what if the collective only wants to maximise its own desires; if the collective action or inaction is only desirable or beneficial to the majority? Is that necessarily moral? For example a train is out of control and has no way of stopping, up ahead is a set of points, you are in charge of the points. Each track has workers on it unaware of the train and you have no way to tell them. On the main track are 10 workers on the spur is 1 worker if you do nothing 10 are certain to die if you turn the point 1 is certain to die. What do you do and why?

[QUOTE="The Scotsman, post: 248677, member: 1016"] But what if the collective only wants to maximise its own desires; if the collective action or inaction is only desirable or beneficial to the majority? Is that necessarily moral? For example a train is out of control and has no way of stopping, up ahead is a set of points, you are in charge of the points. Each track has workers on it unaware of the train and you have no way to tell them. On the main track are 10 workers on the spur is 1 worker if you do nothing 10 are certain to die if you turn the point 1 is certain to die. What do you do and why? [/QUOTE]

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