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J. Goard's avatar

The Martian example is excellent. Another useful feature of it is that is that it presents the scenario as normalized, something expected to happen every once in a while. This neuters the "Dr. Frankenstein's ego is so big he thinks he can single-mindedly change the way things have always been!" aspect of anti-Transplant intuitions.

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

Yes, I agree. Now I'd imagine utilitarians would still have the intuition that you should do it and non-utilitarians wouldn't. Still, it doesn't play on misleading intuitions and, when it doesn't, it's no longer seen as a good counterexample.

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J. Goard's avatar

Do you imagine that the division in responses would be pretty much the same as for the original Trolley?

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

No.

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Amos Wollen's avatar

A stellar piece. However, in the words of one M. Hijab, "Contradiction! CONTRADICTION!" Expect my crushing response in a finite number of business days.

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