In Bystander's Three Options, Thomson argues that saving the five workers is
A) A moral duty.
B) A good deed that comes with a cost.
C) The only morally permissible choice.
D) The greatest good for the greatest number of people.

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Thomson argues that saving the five workers by diverting the trolley is a good deed, but it comes with a cost, namely the life of the one worker on the other track. She does not claim it to be a moral duty or the only morally permissible choice, nor does she frame it in terms of the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

In Bystander's Three Options, Thomson Argues That Saving the Five