The Footbridge Trolley Problem
(also termed Fat Man Problem)
The trolley is going to hit five people.
If you push the person from the bridge, five survive, but the person you push gets hit.
Choose from the buttons below.
Scoreboard
Pushed the man: 36%
Did nothing (five died): 64%
Total decisions: 5944
Pushed the man: 36%
Did nothing (five died): 64%
Total decisions: 5944
This interactive simulation presents the Footbridge variant of the Trolley Problem (Play the interactive Trolley Problem).
Unlike the classic lever version, this scenario requires direct physical action:
pushing a man off a bridge to stop a runaway trolley. This adaptation highlights
the moral tension between actively causing harm to one person versus passively
allowing harm to come to five others.
What will you do?
