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  • 3 - Must we turn the trolley?

  • Edited by Hallvard Lillehammer, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Book:
    The Trolley Problem
    Published online:
    24 February 2023
    Print publication:
    02 March 2023, pp 42-58

  • Summary

    Helen Frowe argues against a common view of the standard Trolley Scenario according to which it is permissible but not required to kill the one as a side effect of saving the five. She argues that saving the five and killing the one is morally required in that scenario. I defend the intuitive verdict that it is permitted but not required to turn the trolley in the Trolley Scenario. First, I show that the crucial premise of Frowe’s argument – the premise that one has a duty to prevent harm to others when one can do so without violating anyone’s rights, and without bearing an unreasonable cost – is false. And second, I present an independent argument (one originally offered by Frances Kamm) for the permissibility of not turning the trolley in the Trolley Scenario.