Mati_Roy answers What ethical thought experiments can be reversed?

[Mati_Roy]

Trolley problem /​ transplant

Original:

1. We want to take actions to save more people

2. Survival lotteries save more people just like pulling the lever does

3. Therefore we support survival lotteries

Reversed:

1. We don’t support survival lotteries

2. Pushing the lever is an action that changes who dies just like the survival lotteries does

3. Therefore we don’t support pulling the lever

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Could do the same with pulling a lever vs pushing a person