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Contrastive consent and secondary permissibility

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12/06/2022
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Pummer, Theron
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Consider three cases:  Turn: A trolley is about to kill five innocent strangers. You can turn the trolley onto me, saving the five and killing me.   Hurl: A trolley is about to kill five innocent strangers. You can hurl me at the trolley, saving the five and paralyzing me.   TurnHurl: A trolley is about to kill five innocent strangers. You can turn the trolley onto me, saving the five and killing me. You can instead hurl me at the trolley, saving the five and paralyzing me. Most find the following four claims intuitively plausible: (1)  It is permissible to turn the trolley onto me in Turn. (2)  It is impermissible to hurl me at the trolley in Hurl. (3)  It is impermissible to turn the trolley onto me in TurnHurl. (4)  It is permissible to hurl me at the trolley in TurnHurl. But how does turning go from permissible to impermissible, and hurling from impermissible to permissible, when both alternatives are available? I argue that such “secondary permissibility” claims are explained by contrastive consent. Even if I do not consent to being harmed, it is likely I'll consent to being hurled at the trolley rather than being turned onto.
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Pummer , T 2022 , ' Contrastive consent and secondary permissibility ' , Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12897
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12897
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0031-8205
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Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Philosophy and Phenonmenological Research Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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