01:730:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Thought Experiment
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Suppose that you are walking along and come across this exact situation. However, as soon as you save the child and go on, you immediately encounter another drowning child, and thereafter another and another and another. I think that you should help as many people as you can and also fulfill your goals and your lifestyle. In an ideal world, everyone will take a little part in themselves to help others and to help out once in awhile. If everyone was able to make this action, more than one action and less than every, it could make a huge impact: thomson"s main examples all involve people who are burdened without consenting to those burdens. The people-seeds take root in your home without consent. Suppose that, as in the original case, you are the only person who could help the violinist. You consider attachment but you are concerned that the burdens may prove too great.