Re: Standards of Behaviour

On May 23, 12:32 am, psychohist <psychoh...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Both "the transplant problem" and "the fat man" - in the latter case,
instead of diverting the trolley, you push a very fat man in front of
it to stop it, something you refer to elsewhere - are attempts to
demonstrate logically equivalent cases to the trolley problem where
the emotional response leads to the opposite conclusion. If you don't
find them equivalent, you can modify them so they are (for me this
involves specifying that the "healthy innocent person" in the
transplant problem is in fact another transplant patient who comes to
the same doctor in charge of the five people waiting for organs).

Looking at those examples I don't see how it's possible to get
something logically equivalent such that I at least would give
different answers.

I do wonder however if one is approaching this wrong. John may be
correct in linking emotion to moral decisions, but not in a direct
way. Maybe it's more of a case that an emotion reaction in the first
place is necessary for a person to even consider something a moral
question. Once considered, the final decision may thereafter be
influenced in any of a number of different ways.


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