UK people would push a fat man off a bridge to stop a runaway train killing five people | Daily Mail Online
so are you off your trolley?
Three out of five people in the UK would push a fat man off a bridge to stop a runaway train killing five people - but that doesn't make Britons 'evil'
- People were asked if they'd actively kill one person in order to save five people
- Three out of five people asked in the UK said they would kill a single individual
- Researchers wanted to understand the morals of people in different countries
- They found western countries would actively kill one person to save the many
- They say this could be due to western cultures being more open to 'speaking up'
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