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63 Drake L. Rev. Discourse 101 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/dralours4 and id is 1 raw text is: TROLLEY PROBLEMS F.E. Guerra-Pujol* Do you kill one person to save five?' ABSTRACT This Article proposes a novel and probabilistic solution to the famous trolley problem in moral philosophy. In short, the Author would solve the trolley problem by conducting an auction from behind a veil of ignorance. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction .............................................. 101 II. The Nature of the Trolley Problem ..................................................... 103 A. Trolley Problem No. 1: The Standard Version.............................. 103 B. Trolley Problem No. 2: The Fat-Man Variation............................ 104 III. Legal Trolley Problem s..................................................................... 105 IV . Trolley A uctions............................................................................... 107 A. Auctions Behind a Veil of Ignorance........................................... 107 B. Auctions Without a Veil of Ignorance ......................................... 110 V . M oral R ed Flags ............................................................................... 112 A . W ealth E ffects........................................................................... 113 B . C om m ensurability...................................................................... 114 C . M arket A version ........................................................................ 116 V I. C onclusion ....................................................................................... 118 Appendix .............................................. ........ 119 I. Introduction Consider the following famous thought experiment: a trolley car with * Lecturerin Business Law, University of Central Florida, Dixon School of Accounting; B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; J.D., Yale Law School. Correspondence addiess: Enrique.Guerra-Pujol@ucf.edu. I presented an earlier draft of this Article at the Ninth Annual Conference of the Society forEvolutionary Analysis in Law in October2007 held at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana, and I am especially grateful to Owen Jones, Daniel Martin Katz, Jeffrey Stake, Gregory Todd Jones, and Doug Yar for their feedback during the conference and their intellectual friendship. The original draft of my trolley-problempaper lay dormant, however, for the next five years -until the summer of 2012, to be more precise, when my wife and I resided in Saint Ann Parish in Jamaica. At that time, I had an epiphany: why not apply the Coase Theoremto the trolley problemin moral philosophy? Ithen wrote up a rough draft of the current Article in July 2012 and have since revised my trolley -problem Article to consider the ethical implications of my Coas ean approach. This Article thus represents my nst recent thoughts on the trolley problem. 1. See Cathy Lynn Gros sman, Do You Kill One Person to Save Five?, USA TODAY (Oct. 10, 2010), http://content.usatoday.com/comiunities/Religion/post/2010/10/killing -people- morals -ethics -trolley -problem/ 1#.VEZ6laMo6bh. 101

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