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Text book: Required Materials & Equipment
Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; ISBN: 978-0-374-18065-2)
Instructions: 1. For the trolley problem: change tracks? yes or no.
People Face A Terrifying Moral Dilemma
- Do you push the man from the bridge? yes or no
- Would you kill the goatherds? yes or no
Why or why not?
Then, for discussion:
Read: WGBH Educational Foundation and Harvard University’s
“The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens” or https://la.utexas.edu/users/jmciver/357L/QueenvDS.PDF
Read this summary of the famous Queen v. Dudley and Stephens case. As you read, consider if you agree with the ruling in this case, and if you would rule differently, as well as why you would do so. This text discusses the famous lifeboat case, which established the legality of choosing to murder out of necessity. Although the details of the case are quite graphic, this fact itself may serve as a prompt for many of us to revise our initial intuitions about the moral status of killing one to save many others.
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