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  • Reflection on Trolley vs Hospital

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    Last Friday, I presented the two following scenarios from David Schmidtz's Elements of Justice. Two Scenarios Trolley A trolley is rolling down the track on its way to killing five people. If you switch the trolley to another track on which there is only one person, you will say five and kill one. Hospital Five…

  • Trolley vs Hospital

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    I've just finished reading a stimulating book by David Schmidtz called Elements of Justice. Schmidtz is a professor of both philosophy and economics at the University of Arizona. He has some great thought experiments. He presented the following in his discussion on "need." Two Scenarios Trolley A trolley is rolling down the track on its…