Comment on Open Thread, Jun. 1 - Jun. 7, 2015

Wed, 03 Jun 2015 02:11:09 GMT

A truly saintly person would push the fat man then demand to be punished, because the choice was right but he was not entitled to make such a choice and others should not feel entitled to either.

Saintly in what sense? From a consequentialist point of view, there is no point in punishing the pusher (and in any case "entitled to make the choice" is not a consequentialist concept). From a deontological point of view, the pusher shouldn't push the man in the first place.

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