The fans of a seriously ill violinist have brought you to hospital for an organ transplant. Only you share the violinist's blood group. If you make your escape, he will die, but if you stay, you will be shackled to a hospital bed for nine months. What do you do?

What is right? What is real? And who am I, after all? Philosophy asks life's big questions. We present these questions as animated thought experiments, and thereby show how fascinating and entertaining it is to ponder life.

http://www.srf.ch/filosofix

Tought experiment: Judith Jarvis Thomson
Animation: Nino Christen
Speaker: Blake Worrell
Music: Martin Bezzola

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