You Can Save One Person or Five. But Not All Six.
"I teach moral philosophy, and as I read those reports, I couldn’t stop thinking about the philosopher John Taurek’s 1977 paper “Should the Numbers Count?” It speaks to the dreadful decisions that doctors may be facing, and it makes a surprising suggestion about what counts as equal treatment in an emergency."
—Professor
Scott Hershovitz, in a
New York Times op-ed about whether, for doctors’ decisions regarding, say, the use of ventilators, “the numbers count.”