RE: Trolley Problem/Consistency in Ethics
January 24, 2018 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2018 at 4:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It modifies desert...as a person who happens upon an unfortunate scenario is not held accountable for the specifics of the situation that they did not engineer. Only their response to it.
So, for example, grabbing a fat man and tossing him on the tracks is to put an additional person in danger..and if you were going to -throw- a body on the tracks, and that would work...again one wonders why it wouldn't be one's own. People get confused by similarities of numbers, which is how this whole dilemma of comparison was manufactured in the first place. It's 1 or 5 regardless, and that makes it the same. right? No, and no. At least not according to c-ethics (or..really, any credible ethical schema).
Another way to explain this is that..yes, in both cases you may be in whatever sense you choose to take it, responsible for the death of a person..but moral considerations are not a dry accounting of whether or not someone dies. That;s not the question being asked, and so it doesn't serve as a cogent answer, nor will two people dying, 1/1 make every situation in which a person dies equivalent in a moral sense.
So, for example, grabbing a fat man and tossing him on the tracks is to put an additional person in danger..and if you were going to -throw- a body on the tracks, and that would work...again one wonders why it wouldn't be one's own. People get confused by similarities of numbers, which is how this whole dilemma of comparison was manufactured in the first place. It's 1 or 5 regardless, and that makes it the same. right? No, and no. At least not according to c-ethics (or..really, any credible ethical schema).
Another way to explain this is that..yes, in both cases you may be in whatever sense you choose to take it, responsible for the death of a person..but moral considerations are not a dry accounting of whether or not someone dies. That;s not the question being asked, and so it doesn't serve as a cogent answer, nor will two people dying, 1/1 make every situation in which a person dies equivalent in a moral sense.
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