The world we find ourselves in would never expect the doctor to cut the guy up. Few people are doing that consequentialist math. Well, maybe a few long thinkers on this site. So, the supposed long view as reason for not doing it is baloney. I think on that basis alone the experiment fails to come up recommending the conventional behavior it’s trying to rationalize.
We would never expect the doctors to cut the guy up, but hardly any doctors would cut the guy up. Doctors are drawn from the same pool as the rest of society, so society’s expectations of their behavior are pretty much on point.
In a world where doctors were likely to cut the person up, the public would also be a lot more likely to expect doctors to cut the person up.
The world we find ourselves in would never expect the doctor to cut the guy up. Few people are doing that consequentialist math. Well, maybe a few long thinkers on this site. So, the supposed long view as reason for not doing it is baloney. I think on that basis alone the experiment fails to come up recommending the conventional behavior it’s trying to rationalize.
We would never expect the doctors to cut the guy up, but hardly any doctors would cut the guy up. Doctors are drawn from the same pool as the rest of society, so society’s expectations of their behavior are pretty much on point.
In a world where doctors were likely to cut the person up, the public would also be a lot more likely to expect doctors to cut the person up.