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If it comes to idealised organ harvesting: I honestly don't know morally which side of the trolley problem (which this one is an instance of) is the one to be p
by IsTom 5y ago
If it comes to idealised organ harvesting: I honestly don't know morally which side of the trolley problem (which this one is an instance of) is the one to be picked, so it's unclear to me what side is the right one. Remember that you're a few times more likely to receive an organ than to donate all organs in this case.
When it comes to "real" case: it causes distress to the whole population and transplanted organs have consequences (e.g. immunosupressants) that lower their value.
- pdonis 5y agoI don't understand the difference between "idealized" and "real" organ harvesting. Unless "idealized" just means "ignoring all the actual hard questions involved". In any case, your claim that I responded to was that "most, if not all, of these problems can be done away with" by adopting logarithmic instead of linear utility. You haven't said anything about how logarithmic utility "does away with" the problem of deciding whether organ harvesting is ethical. Or about any other of the scenarios in the article except the cookie one. So it looks to me like you are backing off from your original claim.