The driver of a trolley

 If you were  the driver of a trolley speeding down the track, and the brakes aren’t working and there’s no way of stopping it. What would you do if on the track up ahead are five workers in the trail eating their sandwiches and they don´t have any chance of get safe? But there is a oportunity of saving them, you can press a level to redirect the train onto a different track, sadly on this track, there is one person who would die. Which would be your decision? Would you redirect the train? 

As you are thinking there isn´t a correct answer. For one side you would be an spectator who haven´t partipated in the death of the workers. On the on the other hand, if you press the level, you would have killed a person with your action, but at the same time saved five lifes, but those lives aren´t more valieu than the other one.

In spite of the fact that doing an action mentally makes as fell worse, being an spectator make as guilty too, because you had the opportunity of saving them and you haven´t. That´ s why I belive that your decision depends on your point of view, a consequentialist one or a deontological.

As a conclution, this hard situation doesn´t have a right answer, but I belive that saving five people is equal to rescuing five families, I am stopping five funerals. Sadly, as a colleteral damage one worker would die but in my cosequentialist view is better.


Corrected review (C1 level)

Imagine you were the driver of a trolley speeding down the track. The brakes have failed and there is no way to stop it. Ahead, five workers are standing on the main line eating their sandwiches; they cannot get out of the way in time. You can pull a lever to divert the trolley onto a different track, but there is one person on that line who would then be killed. What would you do?

There is no obvious right answer. On one hand, if you do nothing you are a bystander who did not cause the workers’ deaths. On the other hand, if you pull the lever you would be actively causing someone’s death, even though you would save five lives. Many people feel worse about taking an action that kills someone than about allowing deaths to happen by omission, but others argue that minimizing total harm is the most important consideration.

Personally, I believe the decision depends on your ethical perspective: a consequentialist would probably pull the lever to save five people, while a deontologist would refuse to cause a death intentionally. In my consequentialist view, redirecting the trolley is the better option: five lives saved means five families spared grief, whereas the death of one worker would be a tragic but comparatively smaller loss.


Main errors you made (with explanations & corrections)

  1. Articles (a / the / no article)

    • Your: If you were the driver of a trolley speeding down the track, and the brakes aren’t working and there’s no way of stopping it.

    • Fix: Use definite/indefinite articles and split long sentences: Imagine you were the driver of a trolley speeding down the track. The brakes have failed and there is no way to stop it.

    • Explanation: Use the when you speak about a specific thing already introduced; use a for general.

  2. Verb forms & tenses

    • Your: there´s a oportunity of saving them, you can press a level to redirect the train

    • Fix: there is an opportunity to save them; you can pull a lever to divert the train.

    • Explanation: Use opportunity to + infinitive; pull a lever is the correct collocation.

  3. Word choice / collocations

    • trail → wrong: should be track (train context).

    • press a levelpull a lever (lever, not level).

    • get safebe safe / get to safety.

    • colleteralcollateral (spelling).

    • lifeslives (spelling/plural).

  4. Prepositions

    • Your: on the track up ahead are five workers in the trail eating their sandwiches

    • Fix: ahead, five workers are on the track, eating their sandwiches.

    • Explanation: word order and prepositions matter; in the trail is incorrect for trains.

  5. Sentence structure / punctuation

    • You often used run-on sentences and commas where full stops are better.

    • Example: As you are thinking there isn´t a correct answer. For one side you would be an spectator who haven´t partipated in the death of the workers.

    • Fix: Split ideas: There is no single correct answer. On one side, you would be a spectator who did not participate in the workers’ deaths.

  6. Pronouns / subject–verb agreement

    • who haven´t partipatedwho had not participated or who did not participate.

    • you would be an spectatoryou would be a spectator.

  7. Spelling & minor lexical errors

    • oportunityopportunity

    • partipatedparticipated

    • belivebelieve

    • conclutionconclusion

    • cosequentialistconsequentialist

    • colleteralcollateral

  8. Register & cohesion

    • Use linking words to connect ideas (however, on the other hand, therefore, in spite of, personally).

    • Avoid literal translations from Spanish (e.g., as a colleteral damageas collateral damage or as a consequence, one worker would die).

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