Trolleys, Transplants and Inequality: An Egalitarian Proposal.
This paper deals with the core version of the Trolley Problem. In one case (Trolley) many people favor an act (throwing a switch) which will bring about the death of one person but save five other persons (rather than letting five die and one go on living). In another case (Transplant) most people w...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 87; no. 4; pp. 1737 - 1752 |
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