关于做“决定”的一些思考（转）
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一群孩子在2条临近的铁轨旁玩耍，其中一条铁轨仍在使用中，另外一条已被废弃。只有一个孩子在被废弃的铁轨上玩耍，其余的孩子们都在那条仍在使用中的铁轨上玩耍。
这时，火车要来了，你就站在铁轨交汇处旁。你可以改变火车行进方向使其朝被废弃的铁轨驶去，这样就可以拯救大多数的孩子。但同时也意味着将牺牲在被废弃铁轨处玩耍的那一个孩子。或者你情愿让火车就朝着仍在使用中的轨道运行？
让我们想想我们会做出怎样的决定？
（思考一下，往下看）
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大多数人会选择改变火车行进轨迹，牺牲那一个孩子。我猜你也是这么想的。确实是这样，为了拯救大多数孩子而牺牲一个孩子的生命是多数人会做的明智选择。但你有没有想过，事实上，在被废弃的铁轨上玩耍的孩子做出了在安全地点玩耍的正确选择？
但是，由于其他无知孩子在危险地方玩耍的愚蠢错误，他却不得不被牺牲。这种困境几乎每天都在发生。在公司，社区，政治，特别是在民主社会，少数人常常为多数人的利益而牺牲，不管那些多数人是多么的无知和愚蠢，不管少数人事多么地具有远见卓识。那个选择在废弃铁轨上玩耍的孩子被边缘化了。这种情况下，是没有人会为他的牺牲掉眼泪的。
讲述这个故事的伟大评论家Leo Velski Julian说他不会去改变火车的运行轨迹，因为他相信在仍在使用中的铁轨上玩耍的孩子们很清楚这条铁轨是在运行中的，如果他们听到火车的汽笛声，他们就会跑开。如果改变了火车行进轨迹，那个在被废弃铁轨上玩耍的孩子肯定会死，因为他从来没想过火车会朝他开过来。此外，之所以那条铁轨被废弃掉，很有可能是因为它不安全。如果火车被转向至被废弃的铁轨上运行，火车上所有人的生命都将可能受到威胁。如果你为了拯救几个孩子而牺牲一个孩子，最后结果可能是你牺牲了火车上的数百人来挽救几个孩子。
我们都知道生活常常需要我们做出艰难的抉择，但我们也许没有意识到匆忙做出的决定并不总是正确的。
请谨记！
正确的事情并不总是受欢迎的，受欢迎的并不总是正确的。
每个人都会犯错误，这就是为什么人们把橡皮装在铅笔上。
（以下是原文）
I really enjoyed reading this.
Insight into Decision Making
A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.
The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?
Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make........ .........
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Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place?
Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us every day. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.
The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens.. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track! Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.
While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.
'Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and what's popular isn't always right.'
Everybody makes mistakes; that's why they put erasers on pencils.
