RE: Trolley Problem/Consistency in Ethics
January 24, 2018 at 3:10 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2018 at 3:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 24, 2018 at 3:03 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: However for a very real world situation.... terrorist have hijacked an airplane, and are redirecting the airplane towards a large city/population group. Do you shoot down the plane, along with the innocent people on board before it gets there?Sure do, and then we invade small countries like bloody dominoes as a warning to anyone else who might have been thinking about pulling similar shit (or because we were bored that day).
Quote: Here you are actively killing some to save more. Why would this be any different from the organ transplant scenario?We have no other, more ethical, option...as the doctor does..however much he may not want to avail himself of it. We cant save both groups of people, doing nothing consigns them all to death..and sets a dangerous precedent. If, instead, you'd set it up as a hostage trade to more adequately express a similar situation..we've been known to do that - but not when we're pretty sure they;re going to kill the one hostage they're willing to trade for five.
At least not publicly, not officially (lol).
Quote:Does an unspoken social obligation outweigh any ethical or moral underpinnings.... I have trouble saying that it does.Social obligations, by their nature, are the very opposite of unspoken.....we're speaking them with all those fun little morality plays we love so much. They are expressions of our ethical and moral underpinnings, not something we choose or weigh in their stead.
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