The Counterintuitive Conclusiveness of Saving More Rather Than Less Lives

The easy bit is that we should have an obligation to save more rather than fewer lives. One way of doing it would be to aggregate the claims or reasons to save separate individuals, he says. But aggregation could just run amok, and there are other cases where saving one person over another may not make sense in certain circumstances,. He writes: We can maintain the intuitive claim about saving the greater number when the size of the claims is roughly equal.