Making Morally Difficult Decisions

Making Morally Difficult Decisions

The Lisa Show - Season 1, Episode 638 , Segment 3

Moral Dilemmas and Starting the New Year

Episode: Moral Dilemmas and Starting the New Year

  • Jan 20, 2021 1:20 pm
  • 14:29 mins

There are often times in life when we face very difficult decisions. One hypothetical that is frequently cited, and is very hard to answer, is the trolley problem. Would you let the trolley kill one person by diverting its path or would you let it continue on its original path, even if it means it will kill more people? Questions and decisions like this can plague us with confusion and stress as we try to deal with them. So how can we become better at facing morally difficult decisions? Here to help us through this question is psychologist Art Markman.