People are stuck with whatever organs they have. It would be ridiculous to think it acceptable to kill someone for their healthy organs.
Surely you should send the tram left, killing one to save five. <<Pav Surely I would run over 5 slime bags to save the one good person on the left. There is more to all these little case scenarios that you present. On Feb 6, 10:25 pm, Pavan Kolachoor <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a famous philosophical question posted by > BBC.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7739493.stm > > I never got an opportunity to discuss this with anybody, your thoughts > please. > > *1. SHOULD WE KILL HEALTHY PEOPLE FOR THEIR ORGANS?* > > Suppose Bill is a healthy man without family or loved ones. Would it be ok > painlessly to kill him if his organs would save five people, one of whom > needs a heart, another a kidney, and so on? If not, why not? > > Consider another case: you and six others are kidnapped, and the kidnapper > somehow persuades you that if you shoot dead one of the other hostages, he > will set the remaining five free, whereas if you do not, he will shoot all > six. (Either way, he'll release you.) > > If in this case you should kill one to save five, why not in the previous, > organs case? If in this case too you have qualms, consider yet another: > you're in the cab of a runaway tram and see five people tied to the track > ahead. You have the option of sending the tram on to the track forking off > to the left, on which only one person is tied. Surely you should send the > tram left, killing one to save five. > > But then why not kill Bill? > > -- > Regards, > > Pavan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
