Terry Sampson
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The rules simply don't provide for an answer or so it seems to me.
Right. It's a "drop your pants and bend over; I wanna check your temperature" kinda survey.
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The rules simply don't provide for an answer or so it seems to me.
Four other choices:Make your choice.
Four other choices:
- Save both but not yourself.
- Save both and hope the raft doesn't sink.
- Find someone else on the raft less desirable.
- Don't save either.
Right. It's a "drop your pants and bend over; I wanna check your temperature" kinda survey.
Are ya feeling lucky, punk?Is it an option to save both by throwing @columbus overboard to make room?
Kinda sums up your hypothetical.Not realistic choices,
It would be an amoral choice to me.What would be the moral choice for you?
Save both?
Save neither?
Kinda sums up your hypothetical.
Tom
It would be an amoral choice to me.
Perhaps the correct answer is that you would jump overboard to make room for both. How many people might think of that?
Hypothetical situation.
You're airplane has crash landed in the ocean. Luckily the airline you used is one of the few that provides inflatable life rafts. You begin helping survivors onto the life raft. But it's almost full. You have only 1 spot left and the raft is at capacity. 2 survivors left asking for help.
One is a pregnant lady.
The other is a convicted killer in cuffs struggling to stay afloat.
Make your choice.
How pregnant is the pregnant lady?
Oh I can.Sorry if you can't make basic human decisions.
It's just a simple fact.
So two people out of the three will die. Either me and the pregnant woman, the convict and me, or the pregnant woman and the convict.
2 out of 3?
If the pregnant woman dies. That's 2 lives lost.
If the convict dies that is 1 life lost.
Saving the pregnant woman saves 2 lives.
Is the pregnant lady a mass murderer, fleeing the Hague and the convict a black guy railroaded by the Alabama "justice system"?Good make a decision then.
Save the pregnant lady.
Or
The convict.
So this thread is about when life begins?
Is the pregnant lady a mass murderer, fleeing the Hague and the convict a black guy railroaded by the Alabama "justice system"?
The reason I ask is because I know how rarely simplistic hypotheticals have much to do with the messy and nuanced reality that we live in.
Tom