We talked about a famous set of ethical dilemmas known as the trolley problems (and the organ transplant scenario). Our discussion of those situations took place before we had considered any normative ethical theories. How might your understanding of those theories be used to better explain the trolley problems? What are the important distinctions? Do your intuitions about what is right or wrong in the trolley situations commit you to a particular ethical theory? Why or why not?

We talked about a famous set of ethical dilemmas known as the trolley problems (and the organ transplant scenario). Our discussion of those situations took place before we had considered any normative ethical theories. How might your understanding of those theories be used to better explain the trolley problems? What are the important distinctions? Do your intuitions about what is right or wrong in the trolley situations commit you to a particular ethical theory? Why or why not?