Thursday, October 29, 2015

Fight Club- Trolley Problem

Pro
1.     Death is inevitable, so just save the most people
2.     You are responsible for killing someone either way.
3.     Good of the many outweighs the good of the few.
4.     Better for society to save the most people.
5.     You don’t know anything about the people, so the best bet for saving the most value for society is to save more people.

Con
1.     If you kill the one person it is on your conscious, but it is just a freak occurrence if you do nothing.
2.     The ends do not justify the means.
3.     Wouldn’t pull the lever because people tend toward inaction when there is not sufficient time to decide.
4.     It doesn’t matter what you do because either way you are still killing someone.
5.     There is no absolute morality so it can’t be said to be moral or immoral to engage in either option.

6.     Its manslaughter to kill one person, but you aren’t culpable if you do nothing.

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