(November 24, 2015 at 7:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No way of knowing if the either is a good person or a bad person. Different version of throwing the fat guy off the bridge on the train tracks to stop the lose car to save those on that lose car.
Actually, I don't think this is the same thing. In the case of the fat man, you are killing one person to save several others. Unless I am mistaken, the hypothetical scenario presented here is killing one to save one. The question seems more to be about whether you would assume the aggressor was in the wrong with sufficient conviction to kill him/her at a moment's notice rather than if would you be willing to kill someone for a net gain of lives.
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