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Chapter 50 Self Quiz
The Trolley Problem, Judith Jarvis Thomson
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The trolley problem is
a real case taken from history.
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a problem that might arise in real life.
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a hypothetical moral problem.
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a story ripped from the headlines.
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The case involving a trolley and the case involving a surgeon are philosophically interesting because they
seem importantly similar but deliver different intuitive verdicts.
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reveal a consistence in our moral judgments.
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demonstrate that Europeans and Americans have similar views about morality.
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seem importantly different but deliver the same intuitive verdicts.
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Thomson reports that when she asks people about the trolley case, most people feel that
the driver should
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it is permissible to turn the trolley.
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they have no idea what the driver should do.
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it is morally wrong to turn the trolley.
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Which of these might be a reason to turn the trolley?
The trolley driver has a special duty to keep workers safe.
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Making an active choice is to kill is morally worse than passively allowing deaths.
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Each person’s life is equally sacred and valuable.
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Saving five lives is the better choice, even at the cost of one person’s death.
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The surgeon case is similar to the trolley case, because both cases are about a choice to
save a life, by any means necessary.
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take a life, supposedly “for good reasons.”
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actively take a life versus passively allow people to die.
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take one life to allow five people to live.
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In the surgeon case, the doctor has the option of harvesting valuable organs from a patient who will die anyway.
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Although both stories are about sacrificing one life to save five lives, most people have different feelings about the trolley case and the surgeon case.
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According to Thomson, most people think the surgeon should be allowed to sacrifice a healthy patient if it was 100% guaranteed that he would be able to save the lives of five other people with the organ transplants.
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