Trolley Dilemma People sometimes make moral judgments without knowing why they made them. An example is judgments made about the Trolley Dilemma, shown here. Imagine that a trolley car is headed toward six people. In the top version of the dilemma, you can flip a switch and divert the car so that it hits and kills only one person instead of six. Would you do this? In the bottom version, you can pick up one person and throw him in front of the car, so that it hits and kills only one person instead of six. Would you do that? Most people say yes to the first question but no to the second, even though both entail the same number of lives saved and lost. The action of physically moving a person against his or her will generates emotional reactions that are not produced by the action of flicking a switch, and these emotions contribute to the different moral judgments made in the two situations.