Should You Kill the Backpacker? Australians do slightly worse than everybody else at this... http://bit.ly/vkyY6e #ethics
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@PhilosophyExp That isn't how I interpreted it at all, which is what determined my answer. Maybe I was too focused on morals, not physics :)
@mcknick85 You have a point. But oddly it isn't any more clear in Judith Jarvis Thomson's original treatment of the problem.
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@PhilosophyExp I thought the 5 would die, trolley would loop and kill the individual making it kill one save 5 compared to all 6 dying -
@mcknick85 Yeah, that would make a difference to how people would likely respond. I'll make it clearer. Thanks for pointing it out! -
@PhilosophyExp :) no worries!
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@PhilosophyExp If the backpacker was in a car crash and was going to die anyway I would say harvesting organs would be morally acceptableThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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