The Sleeping Worker

A runaway trolley is heading toward five workers who can see it coming. You can redirect the runaway trolley toward one sleeping worker who would never know what happened.

• 51% chose: Redirect the runaway trolley (1353 people)
• 49% chose: Do nothing (1282 people)

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