PHL201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Trolley Problem, Individual And Group Rights, Consequentialism
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Lecture 19: killing, letting die, and the trolley problem. Killing vs letting die, individual rights vs social goods: 2 contrasts as shown in title. Trolley problem cases (1: t is making thought experiments to see what our intuitions are and what we believe, tries to build theory out of it. If agree with thomson"s verdict, he should switch to track b and kill the 1 rather than the 5. In driver there seems to be some ground for us to say that driver was killing 5: passenger, can ld 5, can ki 1. If driver should switch tracks, then passenger should also switch: but switch or don"t switch, t says it"s right for driver to switch so passenger should probably switch too, trolley problem 3: Trolley problem cases (2: agreeing with t = surgeon and bystander can"t kill 1 to save 5. Worcester and kill little city: analogous to switching trolley to path with less people.
