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[1]  Would You Kill the Fat Man? is the title of a recent book about a set of moral problems that philosophers like to ponder, and psychologists to put to their experimental subjects. In the standard form, you are on a bridge overlooking a railway track. You see a trolley speeding along the track and, ahead of it, five people tied to the rails. Can these five be saved? There is a very fat man leaning over the railing watching the trolley. If you were to push him off the bridge, he would tumble down and smash onto the track below. He is so obese that his bulk would bring the trolley to a shuddering halt. Sadly, the process would kill the fat man. But it would save the other five. (You cannot stop the trolley by jumping yourself; only the fat man is heavy enough.) Would you kill the fat man? Most people are shocked by the idea of pushing the man to his death. But alter the scenario a bit, and reactions change. People are more likely to pull a lever that would switch the trolley onto ...

まだ読んでいない人はこれを→ 「はじめに読んで」 全文和訳 [1]　。  ｢太った男を殺しますか？｣というのは最近の著書のタイトルで，哲学者なら熟考し，心理学者なら実験の被験者たちに提起したがる、道徳的な問題を扱っている。 Would You Kill the Fat Man?   / is the title of a recent book  / about a set of moral problems  / {that philosophers like to ponder,  / and psychologists to put to their experimental subjects}.  ※psychologists to put = psychologist like to put →likeを省略している ※put problems to ...「...に問題を提起する」 　→problems {(which) psychologists like to put to their experimental subjects}     　問題（どんな？）{心理学者たちが実験の被験者に提起したがる} 標準的な形ではこうだ。あなたは跨線橋の上にいて線路を見下ろしている。 In the standard form,  / you are on a bridge  / overlooking a railway track.  路面電車が線路上を疾走しており，その前方には５人が線路に縛りつけられているのが目に入る。 You see a trolley speeding along the track  / and, ahead of it,  / five people tied to the rails.  ※see O doing「Oが～しているのを見る」 ※speed「速度をあげて走る(v.)」 ※five people tied to ... = you see five people tied to ... →you seeが省略...

[1]  June 2009: Air France flight 447 is cruising from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when it hits a tropical storm in the mid-Atlantic. Minutes later, the Airbus A330 flies into the ocean, killing all 228 people on board. On a sunny July morning four years later, a flight approaching San Francisco airport smashes into the sea wall just ahead of the runway, causing the entire tail section to break off and sending the fractured fuselage cartwheeling across the airstrip. Three people died and dozens were injured. These different incidents appear unrelated, yet they share a tragic similarity: the pilot of each plane believed his flight control systems would automatically prevent the aircraft from stalling or flying too slowly to stay airborne. They were wrong. [2] It turns out that this type of mix-up is a major contributor to a number of air crashes. And the situation is ( A ). With more things becoming automated, pilots can get confused when something goes seriously wrong, losing trac...

まだ読んでない人はこれを先に読んで下さい（→ 「はじめに読んで」 ） 英語全文は こちら [1]  2009 年６月１日：エールフランス 447 便はリオデジャネイロからパリヘ向かって飛行中に大西洋中部で熱帯性低気圧に遭遇する。数分後，エアバス A330 型機は海に墜落し搭乗した 228 名全員が死亡。４年後の７月のある晴れた朝，サンフランシスコ空港に接近中の飛行機が滑走路のすぐ手前の護岸に激突しその結果，尾翼部分全体が破損して，折れた機体は滑走路を横切る形で側方にスピン。３人が死亡し数十人が負傷。この別々の事故は関連がなさそうに見えるが，どちらにも不幸な類似点がある。いずれの飛行機の操縦士も，飛行制御装置が、飛行機が失速したり、飛行速度が落ちすぎるて飛行を維持できなくなるのを 自動的に 防ぐだろうと信じていたことだ。それは間違いだった。 June 2009:  Air France flight 447 is cruising from Rio de Janeiro to Paris  / when it hits a tropical storm in the mid-Atlantic.  Minutes later,  / the Airbus A330 flies into the ocean ,  / killing all 228 people on board.  On a sunny July morning four years later,  / a flight {approaching San Francisco airport}  / smashes into the sea wall  / just ahead of the runway,  / causing the entire tail section to break off  / and sending the fractured fuselage cartwheeling  / across the airstrip.  cause O to do...