Question

1. Like Kantianism, Virtue Ethics places importance with motives over actions.

   True

   False

2. Choose the best answer according to the following scenario: An evil person has abducted a family member of your family along with five strangers and has tied all six people to a train track that forms a loop where there is an oncoming train approaching quickly. (Your family member is tied on the north side of the loop and the five strangers are tied on the south side of the loop. {Note--There is train depot opposite of where you are standing on the other side of the looping train track so the train will not do a full circle and kill all six people.}. So the train will either inevitably kill your one family member or the five strangers. Now the train is initially slotted to head towards your family member on the north side. You are thus standing at the juncture of the loop by the switch lever where you get to decide where the train will go, north or south side of the loop, before it stops at the depot. According to the virtue of loyalty, what would a loyal virtuous person do?

   		Don't switch the direction of the train thus killing your family member.
   		Switch the direction of the train thus killing your family member.
   		Switch the direction of the train thus killing the five strangers.
   		Don't switch the direction of the train thus killing the five strangers.

Answer 1

1)

The said statement is true

2)

Correct option is Don't switch the direction of the train thus killing your family member.