(June 24, 2014 at 9:10 am)pocaracas Wrote:(June 24, 2014 at 8:50 am)fr0d0 Wrote: How?The trolley problem has two sets of people. At least one of them must die. Your choice is who dies. It's not kill or not to kill, like you suggested in your example where you wanted me to be the victim!
I see what you're getting at. But the mother isn't usually dying, and I think Arthur has covered the usual get out clauses/ acceptable exceptions.
In abortion the death of unborn child isn't inevitable, like with the trolley. So from your example, we can't conclude that killing one against killing many is moral at all. That choice was either null, no moral accountability or one choice less onerous than the other. If you had twins and could save one, would it be immoral to take one life? I don't think so.
