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SUBMITTER: Sachdeva S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4468073 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20150615 6
Centuries' worth of cultural stories suggest that self-sacrifice may be a cornerstone of our moral concepts, yet this notion is largely absent from recent theories in moral psychology. For instance, in the footbridge version of the well-known trolley car problem the only way to save five people from a runaway trolley is to push a single man on the tracks. It is explicitly specified that the bystander cannot sacrifice himself because his weight is insufficient to stop the trolley. But imagine if ...[more]