A burning building: you can only save one person — your partner, or a 5-year-old child you've never met.
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This is a forced-choice trolley with a wrenching add: one option is the person you've chosen for life, the other is a child who hasn't had a chance to choose anything. Most ethical frameworks accept that special relationships generate special duties — but the asymmetry of the lives at stake (a 5-year-old has a longer future) cuts in the other direction.
Why people split
One side treats partial duties as the moral baseline — the very meaning of a chosen partner includes 'I'll save you first'. The other treats impartial considerations as overriding in extreme cases — a 5-year-old has done nothing and has more life ahead, and saving them is what stranger-ethics demands.
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What the split says
In close relationships, the kindest choice and the truest choice rarely overlap perfectly. Once votes come in, this section will show how voters trade closeness against honesty.
Worth asking yourself
- Would you want the other person to make the same call?
- Are you protecting them or yourself?