हत्या, मरने देना और ट्रॉली समस्या

परिचय

Thomson’s paper in The Monist (1976) takes up a case Philippa Foot had used in 1967 and gives it the name “trolley problem”: a runaway tram can be steered by its driver from five workers onto one. Thomson sets this against a surgeon who could save five patients by taking the organs of one healthy visitor. Since the driver kills in either case, the distinction between killing and letting die cannot explain the difference; she suggests instead that the driver redirects an existing threat, whereas the surgeon would infringe the rights of his victim. In a sequel, “The Trolley Problem” (1985), she introduced the bystander at the switch, and in 2008 she revised her verdict on that case.

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जिस पर आधारित

• गर्भपात की समस्या और द्वैध प्रभाव का सिद्धांत1967 · फ़िलिप्पा फ़ुट

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• 1971गर्भपात का बचाव