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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Fine, one track has one little boy, the other track has two mid aged people, choose.
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Well that depends on which you value more.
Do 2 lives always have greater value than 1 life?
Is a young life more valuable than an older one?
See how my example about people and rats is different than the boy vs girl, mine is about assigning value to the lives, and now you've given me an equivalent example.
So in your example, I'll take the utilitarian view of taking the action which produces the greater good, in this case saving 2 lives and I'll let the train hit the kid, because without any more info I'll assume that human lives are of equal value.
So now it's up to you.
It's 1 person vs 100 rats.
Does your "All beigns are equal" logic still hold up?
I'm going to pick the rats to die every time, because unlike person vs person choices, I can pretty easily assess which live is more valuable when it comes to people vs rats.