Philosophy 1020 Lecture 9: Philosophy Lecture #9-should numbers count
21 Dec 2017
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But one of the six requires the entire drug if he is to survive. Each of the other five requires only one-fifth of the drug. (cid:498)i have supply of some life saving drug. Six people will all certainly die if they are do? (cid:499) Conclusion is that you re not required to save all 5, The one person who requires the entire drug to survive is a close friend of mine, Taurek says: david may keep the drug because: He violates no ones rights keeping the drug: therefore, in the original situation, you may give the drug to david. B may either spare c the loss of her life, or spare his arm. As above, but the choice is between saving one and saving 50 (or more). (cid:498)i cannot see how or why the mere addition of numbers should change anything. (cid:499)
