From a utilitarian point of view, the obvious choice is to pull the lever, saving five and only killing one.
从一个功利主义者的观点来看,明显应去拉拉杆,只杀死一个人来拯救五个人。
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But on June 2nd a dozen people were killed and about as many injured when a lone gunman went on a 20-mile killing spree, bizarrely stopping, at one point, for a red light.
Though there have been 49 deaths "related to swine flu" in Britain so far, officials point out that such a verdict does not mean the disease delivered the killing blow.