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Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong
By Edmonds, David
- ISBN
- 9780691154022
- Publisher
- Princeton Univ.
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Reviewed on October 15, 2013 | Arts and Humanities
Suppose we can save several lives by diverting a runaway trolley with five people in its path so it kills only one man (the fat man), or suppose that six men can survive in a lifeboat by eating a seventh. Most people, according to Edmonds's (senior research associate, Oxford's Uehiro Ctr. for Practical Ethics; BBC World Service; coauthor, Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers) reports/surveys, "save as...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
