I’m not so convinced that the doctor should not harvest the organs.
In order for there to be a general rule against organ harvesting by that doctor there have to be enough other people who are TDT and who will make the same disinterested decision that the doctor did and who will be caught and scandalized by the media that people all over the place stop going to the doctor’s office. I don’t think it’s very likely that all of those conditions are met sufficiently. Also, the impact of having some people stop going to the doctor’s and get sick might arguably not be much worse than the death of five people, which makes the risk analysis matter even more.
It’s ambiguous to me at 5. If it was 7+ saved I would reluctantly kill one. If it was 12+ saved I would definitely do it.
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and let the deontologists win the intuitions.
Intuitions are flawed, so we’ll have to abandon them at some point or another.
I’m not so convinced that the doctor should not harvest the organs.
In order for there to be a general rule against organ harvesting by that doctor there have to be enough other people who are TDT and who will make the same disinterested decision that the doctor did and who will be caught and scandalized by the media that people all over the place stop going to the doctor’s office. I don’t think it’s very likely that all of those conditions are met sufficiently. Also, the impact of having some people stop going to the doctor’s and get sick might arguably not be much worse than the death of five people, which makes the risk analysis matter even more.
It’s ambiguous to me at 5. If it was 7+ saved I would reluctantly kill one. If it was 12+ saved I would definitely do it.
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and let the deontologists win the intuitions.
Intuitions are flawed, so we’ll have to abandon them at some point or another.