Another "Divert the Train" Moral Philosophy Question

[devonin]

Let's just assume we had our big hooplah over how I think choosing inaction is an action, and how you disagree because you feel that your choosing inaction has no result outside yourself, and carry on as though we'd done our inevitable agreement to disagree.

-IF- someone decides to weigh lives, I assume at this stage we should all agree that the girl loses out, no matter how cute she is, even if she has one of those big lollipops and is crying, to 200 people who will, if nothing else, have "several years" of perfectly healthy life.

I'd say "Which brings us to the question, ought we to weigh life" but for this thread, we are going in with a tacit demand that we must accept that we can and should, so that's outside the scope.