Should You Kill the Fat Man?

Preliminary Questions

This activity is a treatment of some of the issues thrown up by a thought experiment called 'The Trolley Problem', which was first outlined by the philosopher Philippa Foot, and then developed by Judith Jarvis Thomson and others. But before we start properly, we need to ask you four preliminary questions so we get a sense of the way that you think about morality. There are no right or wrong answers. Just select the option that most corresponds to your view.

Question 1: Torture, as a matter of principle, is always morally wrong.

 

Really Deep Thought

Sartre had something of Asterix or Tintin in him. The English, who love characters, might have taken him to their hearts had he not hated pets, loathed country walks - and been French.
   --The Economist.


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