The "Trolley Problem" which Brian Holtz tries to use to justify aggression amounts to this: Do you push an innocent fat man in front of a trolley, if killling him that way would save other people further down the track?
The fat guy owns his own life; if he wants to stop the trolley he can jump in front of it. Pushing the fat guy is legally murder. Yet Holtz advocates pushing him. Philosopher Judith Thomson devised this problem because she thought nobody would ever believe you should push the fat man in front of the trolley. I don't suggest that anybody needs to argue this again; and certainly not here. But consider the points of view. Dictators make their trolleys run on tiime because they own your life and can kill you when it is convenient. Libertarians believe you own your own life, and nobody, not even the government, has the right to take your life from you. If you want to read about trolley massacre, see Brian Holtz site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marketliberal/message/861 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marketliberal/message/810 The subject has already been explored Harland Harrison LP of San Mateo County CA --- Brian Holtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes : > Susan Hogarth wrote: > > SH> I think that a person is more or less > libertarian according to the amount of aggression > (including taxation) he advocates. <SH > > A better metric is the net incidence of aggression > that would occur if his policies were adopted. > An even better metric might be to differentiate the > latter metric over the time variable: the change in > the net incidence of aggression that would occur > because of the policy changes he advocates. > > Aggression does not end up minimized if > liberty-lovers merely resolve to promote > aggression-virginity through the example > of their chastity. The just-say-no approach of > aggression abstinence has the virtue of requiring > less thinking (e.g. about counterfactuals), but it > fails to minimize aggression in the real world, > and even runs aground in basic thought > experiments such as the Trolley Problem > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem> . > > Again, the child and her doctor both oppose pain, > but only one recognizes the necessity of needles. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com
