Seriously, the problem with hypothetical questions is that to make them simpler they require absolutes. I could say "you can save the people with 80% probablity by sacrificing the bystander, with 40% probability by persuading him, etc" but while more realistic that obscures the underlying dilemma.
I am implicitely assuming that because this extreme hypothetical example is morally paradoxical, there are similar more complicated example that also are, but it's harder to see that. If you don't think so, um, I don't know.
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Date: 2005-04-07 10:48 am (UTC)I am implicitely assuming that because this extreme hypothetical example is morally paradoxical, there are similar more complicated example that also are, but it's harder to see that. If you don't think so, um, I don't know.