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Oct. 5th, 2003 01:54 pmThe Trolley Problem, Judith Jarvis Thomson
A trolley driver is heading down a track and the brakes fail. The track has 5 people working on it, none of whom can move aside in time. The trolley is approaching a switch, but on the other track is one man who cannot move out of the way in time. Should the trolley driver change to the track that will kill one man? If he does, has he killed that man?
A surgeon has 5 patients that will die w/o organ transplants within 24 hours. A healthy man comes into his office that has healthy organs of the types each needs, and oddly enough of the same blood and HLA type. Should the Doctor kill the one healthy man to save the other 5?
What about a bystander who can flick the switch? Should he intervene or do nothing?
Wealth maximization as an ethical construct, Richard A. Posner
A society is not necessarily wealthier because of an (involuntary) shift by women from household production to prostitution...inhabitants of wealthy countries appear to be no happier than those of pour countries, although within countries the wealthy seem to be happier than the poor.
I'm going to do a psycho post soon. I'm tired of trying to put on a good face for the public, of knowing how to manipulate public perception, of political reality. I enjoy the sickness, of twisting it and painting the result.
A trolley driver is heading down a track and the brakes fail. The track has 5 people working on it, none of whom can move aside in time. The trolley is approaching a switch, but on the other track is one man who cannot move out of the way in time. Should the trolley driver change to the track that will kill one man? If he does, has he killed that man?
A surgeon has 5 patients that will die w/o organ transplants within 24 hours. A healthy man comes into his office that has healthy organs of the types each needs, and oddly enough of the same blood and HLA type. Should the Doctor kill the one healthy man to save the other 5?
What about a bystander who can flick the switch? Should he intervene or do nothing?
Wealth maximization as an ethical construct, Richard A. Posner
A society is not necessarily wealthier because of an (involuntary) shift by women from household production to prostitution...inhabitants of wealthy countries appear to be no happier than those of pour countries, although within countries the wealthy seem to be happier than the poor.
I'm going to do a psycho post soon. I'm tired of trying to put on a good face for the public, of knowing how to manipulate public perception, of political reality. I enjoy the sickness, of twisting it and painting the result.
