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The Survival Lottery: Would You Sacrifice One to Save Two?
Welcome back to our exploration of the mind’s darkest and most challenging corners. Today, we are looking at a thought experiment that forces the cold logic of mathematics into a violent collision with our deepest moral instincts: John Harris’s 1975 thought experiment known as The Survival Lottery.
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Imagine a society where organ transplants are perfectly safe, but organs are scarce. To solve this, a central computer randomly selects one healthy citizen to be painlessly sacrificed, harvesting their organs to save multiple dying patients. Mathematically, fewer…
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