A Moral Question For All Of You?

Question

This is just a moral question. I am really curious to hear some answers.

Okay, you have a 7 year old son. The other parent is not around. All the two of you have is each other. You work for a bridge company. You raise the bridge when a ship is coming and lower it when a train is coming. Every day your son comes with you to work. One day your son sees before you that a train is coming early and the bridge is up. He runs and tries to warn you but he falls and gets stuck on the track. You have seconds to either pull the lever in time and save the hundreds of people on the train but your son will die or let the people perish and save your son.

What do you do? And why?

Answer 1

Save my son. It's human tendancy

Answer 2

I run to my son. He never got there to tell me to lower the bridge so I might not know that the train is coming.

Answer 3

Haha, I remember asking a question like this from the "Book of Questions" to my frank old mom, and she said without a gram of guilt:

"h**l, I'd save my child.  Wouldn't you?"

I miss her since 2000.

Answer 4

I would save my son. Any mother worth her salt would. It is not that I don't care for the people on the train, but my maternal instincts are stronger.  

Answer 5

in this dilemma either way you lose something

either hundreds of people or your son.

there is no answer

Answer 6

Why for goodness sake isn't my seven year old in school everyday?  How did he manage to get stuck on a track that is suspended in the air? These are problems with the premise.

I'd pull the lever and race out to save my son.  It takes time for a bridge to be lowered.  

Answer 7

Save my son.

I don't give a **** about complete strangers.

Answer 8

pull the lever then save my son, the fate of the other people would bank on how good the brakes are vs. how long the bridge is.

Answer 9

I will save my son because he is my own flesh and blood and a mother would do anything to save her child. I would feel bad for the other people on the train but I can honestly say I would put all of my efforts into saving my son.

Answer 10

100% save my son. Always would be my first priority.