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Originally Posted by Zeraph
Yakk hit the nail on the head. These situations only take face value into account. They only seem paradoxal because they arn't real situations. We don't live in theory.
One thing I'm curious about though, in scen 2 why did you give the option to kill the guy with the broken finger, what does he have to do with it?...why wouldn't you give the option to kill one of the ones already dying? Since you said none of the dying patients had the same failed organs.
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Uhhhh, I don't think either of these situations are necessarily theoretical. Furthermore, even if they are only theoretical, they can be useful as controlled experiments to help us isolate a single moral variable.
As for the broken finger... that really had nothing to do with the example: I just didn't see why a perfectly healthy person would be hanging around the hospital unless they were a friend or relative of one of the injured (or of you) and that would just complicate things.
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