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AlessandroF6587 | 4 years ago

Most if not all these supposed dilemmas are the author missing to account for the aftereffects.

Organ harvesting: How bad is the fear in every healthy person for risking to be harvested? Healthy people are much more that people in need organ transplants. How that fear condition their life. Is range generated? With what effects on in need organ transplants?

Framing the innocent: If the action from sheriff comes out and don't get punished what's the effect in people that that fear to be framed for no reason? What's the effect for people losing trust in justice? If you need just a temporary guilty just fake it as long as you find the real criminal or you improve the situation with other means. Obviously situations abstracted from the context and for others lines of actions lead to absurd solutions.

Deathbed promise: Considering the aftereffects of this case are so complex that giving a clear response is quite complex at best.

Sports match: Just save the person and let the other people know that they helped to save a person in need. Gratification will be much more that annoyance for short interruption and memories for that extraordinary events will be good too. If the person was just experiencing a little distress for the latest minutes of mood landing just let him experience it. Utilitarianism let you balance different situations.

Cookie: If we are talking about cookies who care. If we are talking about reward we can balance two things: - a gentle act toward a mad person can have much bigger effects - letting people know that good people get rewarded can generate more good people and more good with time

The Professor and the Serial Killer: Professor do good mainly with his work and with his personal life. Charity is only a small part. How being a lawyer would affect this total outcome? These more money he earn come from somewhere. What's the total effect?

Excess altruism: An altruist get joy from helping others so giving the cookie to Sue the total pleasure is maximized.

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