
Lockdown: A Trolley Problem
Brain in a Vat
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You Can Never Sacrifice Individuals for the Good of Society, Right?
The day ontologists can ask their name, right? And he can say, okay, okay, the calculation is irrelevant. We don't care what the calculation is. You can never sacrifice individuals for the good of society as a whole. That's so indirect that it's not a part of your action. In this case, it'll be the COVID patients. So you have no duty to protect that economy, but you do have a duty to protect lives and to protect people's dignity.
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