RE: Trolley Problem/Consistency in Ethics
January 24, 2018 at 11:47 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2018 at 11:50 am by Longhorn.)
(January 24, 2018 at 11:43 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: You are mistaken.
In the trolley experiment, the one person on the other track does not HAVE TO DIE either. The only way they die is if you ACT by pulling the switch. Otherwise they survive. Think about it.
But the person is not ingrained in this scenario. They come along as an unrelated addition. You choose to involve them and you choose to kill them - it’s not an unstoppable trolley or death, it’s you consciously killing another person. Not in defense of the others, like if they were going to shoot them (unstoppable force).
I still don’t see it as the same even if there aren’t other donors.
It’s not the question of “do I direct this force this way or that way”, it’s “do I let this force go its way or do I act as another force to kill someone else and then stop that force”. If that makes sense.
