Welcome to Loco-Motives
A thought-provoking journey through moral dilemmas based on the classic trolley problem. Your choices will reveal which philosopher's ethical framework aligns most closely with your decisions.
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates
The Classic Trolley Problem
A runaway trolley is heading down the tracks toward five people who are unable to move. You are standing next to a lever that can switch the trolley onto a different track, where there is one person who also cannot move.
Do you pull the lever, sacrificing one person to save five, or do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people?
Your Philosophical Alignment
Based on your choices, your moral compass aligns most closely with:
Immanuel Kant
Deontological Ethics
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
Your choices matched 85% with Kant's philosophy
About Immanuel Kant:
Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher who developed deontological ethics, which judges morality based on the adherence to rules or duties rather than consequences. His categorical imperative suggests we should act only according to maxims that could become universal laws.
