RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
May 19, 2016 at 3:42 am
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2016 at 5:02 am by bennyboy.)
(May 19, 2016 at 2:04 am)Thena323 Wrote: I don't "slink away in safety", bennyboy. I'm a nurse and volunteer EMT...in real life.
I've put my ass on the line more times than I can count; I'm well aware of what it takes to save a life.
So, you can get off your f*cking high horse at any moment.
Thanks.
Okay, great. So you are a person of action. Why, then, would you take a position of inaction causing the deaths of 5 innocent people? I'd think that a nurse would be so horrified at killing 5 people that she'd instinctively turn away from them. And I think that's the difference in our positions-- you are worried about who you'd turn TOWARD than who you might be able to turn AWAY FROM.
Actually, your job gives me a great question. What if you had a sick older patient, or someone in the ER, and this person was of a low socio-economic status, or perhaps a felon on medical leave from prison. Would as much effort go into saving him as into say saving a young Obama daughter, or would there be a kind of "Hmmm. . . hmmmm. . . it's not looking good. . . hmmm maybe we should prep transportation just in case and check the organ transplant lists"? I strongly suspect there is a lot of that, especially in the states, which is much more lucrative than say Canadian hospitals-- am I wrong to think so?