Would you care to price those things for us?If price can mediate how I value chewing gum and an appendectomy and my daughter's education and how much pain I'm in from that car accident, then it can mediate both pulling the switch and pushing the fat man too.
And maybe price them again tomorrow to see if the prices change.
And please tell me how I ought to price your pain from a car accident, since I know nothing at all about it.
I don't know anything about the fat man. What price should I put on him?
"Fundamentally" since it's at the core of the ethical question rather than some extraneous addition.The problems are different, maybe "fundamentally" (whatever function that plays here), but so long as they are forms of value they can be mediated by price.
My position was that some critical consequences were removed from the options. Even accepting that the situation will be simplified for the sake of argument, it was too simplified.I took you to be taking the position that World A is not better than World B.
Since you insist that I respond to the two options as you gave them, my current position is that the example is absurd.
"Mu" suggests a legitimacy in the question which warrants a paradoxical yes/no/both/neither answer. I don't see that it applies here.Your answer to the question, "Is X dollars worth more than P's life" must be "mu": the answer isn't yes or no, because yes or no both imply weighing the value of a person against the value of dollars.