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#658 – A Thoughtful Dialogue on Abortion (with Randal Rauser)

The Counsel of Trent

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The Trolley Experiment

In the moral life, it's usually much clearer what we ought not do versus what we ought to do in order to achieve goods and things like that. So for example, with the trolley case, what makes that interesting then is that people oftentimes are divided about whether it's okay to do most people will divert the trolley, but not everyone will save the five. And there I think that brings up the idea of our intuitions about committing evil versus refraining from doing good, come into play a bit.

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