PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Morphine, Principle Of Double Effect, Consequentialism
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Transplant case-the only way that you can save 5 peoples lives is by killing one person and giving his organs for transplants. If you kill the 1, there is one bad consequence in that one person dies, and 5 people are saved. If you don"t kill then 5 people die. If you just look at the consequences like utilitarianism does, then it seems like you should kill the one. If people think its wrong, its because they think that the first option has a bad consequence, and it is worse because of the way it brings about this consequence. 1)there is a moral distinction between doing evil and allowing evil by not preventing it. Consequentialism denies that is important, hare says that it is not important. Williams both say that this distinction is important. The claim is that it is only morally more permissible to allow evil than doing it.
