True/False Quiz

According to Foot's two principles, it is never permissible to kill an innocent person.

Thomson accepts Foot's second principle but rejects Foot's first principle.

According to Thomson, one may let five die if the only permissible means of saving them is killing oneself.

According to Thomson's Fourth Principle, A may let five die if the only permissible means he has of saving them is killing himself

Thomson claims that if a trolley driver refuses to steer the runaway trolley onto a side track, and because of this the trolley runs over five people, the driver merely lets the five die.

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