Ethics and value theory: Consequeces, duties, and trollies

1. Why, according to Thomson, is the difference between killing and letting die ethically relevant?
The concept is that even though letting people die is never a positive thing, there are situations where it might be a goal to allow more people to die by not killing someone else. Thus, these two differ from one another morally. You can base your decision on the statistics if the issue is one of killing people, and both solutions entail killing people by actively carrying out acts that kill people.
From a utilitarian perspective, we can consider that by allowing a trolley to run over one person instead of five, the amount of harm will be minimised. However, in the instance of a surgeon possessing the ability to remove a single person's organs and that person being cognizant and having stated, "No, I don't want to do this," we have a situation in which one person is killed. In contrast, five others are allowed to perish as a result of inaction and not receiving organ transplants.…