"What Wood's retelling reminds us is that a non-consequentialist focus on individuals as ends in themselves – distinct centres of self-responsible significance – makes it ethically imperative to arrange public transport systems in ways that ensure trolley problems do not arise."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/stephen-mulhall/non-identity-crisis

#TrolleyProblems #ethics
#DerekParfit
#LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB

/fin

"What Wood's retelling reminds us is that a non-consequentialist focus on individuals as ends in themselves distinct centres of self-responsible significance makes it ethically imperative to arrange public transport systems in ways that ensure trolley problems do not arise."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/stephen-mulhall/non-identity-crisis

#TrolleyProblems #ethics
#DerekParfit
#LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB

/fin

"What Wood’s retelling reminds us is that a non-consequentialist focus on individuals as ends in themselves – distinct centres of self-responsible significance – makes it ethically imperative to arrange public transport systems in ways that ensure trolley problems do not arise."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/stephen-mulhall/non-identity-crisis

#TrolleyProblems #ethics
#DerekParfit
#LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB

/fin

I got 99 #trolleyproblems but this ain't one.

#trolleyproblems