[MrPatan]

A thousand times yes.

Another set of "philosophical muggings" that use the same trick and drive me nuts that people just accept them are trolley problems.

"Why shouldn't the surgeon kill a healthy person to save 5 others with his organs?". Duh, because the surgeon doesn't know what's going to happen and there's a high chance he's going to end up with 6 corpses, plus his own when anybody fins out. "No, you don't understand, it's a Gedankenexperiment, we're assuming it works out". That's the mugging, that's the con, you just gave them clarivoyance and from there you can be sold any bridge of their choice.

Never accept crystal balls. There are no paradoxes, just realities people don't like.

[oneoff786]

> Why shouldn't the surgeon kill a healthy person to save 5 others with his organs?". Duh, because the surgeon doesn't know what's going to happen and there's a high chance he's going to end up with 6 corpses, plus his own when anybody fins out.

You really think it’s this, and not that the surgeon doesn’t want to kill people?

[MrPatan]

Well there you go, I'm glad you don't need convincing that "killing" and "letting people die by not giving them fresh organs" are not the same thing at all.

[oneoff786]

Can’t tell if sarcasm