[Read the First Post in FULL before voting] Morality Questions

[Defiyur]

Originally Posted by ArmedDrunk&Angry

I stand corrected.
You sacrificed the greater number of people for the ones whose distress was plain to you.
It is a revealing answer.
Thank You

Did I? Maybe if you knew more about trains hitting cars you'd know that very often everybody on board the train is fine and there is NO DERAILMENT!! Maybe I should have explained every single thing that was part of my decision making process. Course I'm pretty sure no matter what I say you will misconstrue it and come back with your 'anti-whatever I said' remarks. Can you simply just respond without the backhanded insults for once? Try it.

[[R-DEV]Masaq]

For crying out loud will you two stop hijacking threads with your pretty "he said/she said" rubbish. You're both headed for warning points at this rate.

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

It is not an insult.
I would never judge anyone, merely note their reactions.

He puts up a simple question, no additional facts needed.
This is the situation you are presented with, answer the question based on that, no derailment rates, car brakes, train speed or local humidity readings are necessary.

That is the whole point of the original questions, no added variables, which would be factored out in the end anyway.

Do you save the many and live with the fact that you chose to kill or injure the few ?

I admit I find your answer more palatable than those who would do nothing and just watch the people die.

[georgehu2007]

I suppose a real life example of something like this was when Harry Truman authorized the dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed hundreds of thousands of people but potentially saved millions of American soldiers and Japanese civilians and soldiers.

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

Not potentially.
There were over 100,000 casualties taking Okinawa alone, all military and civilian combined.
There is no doubt that taking mainland Japan would have cost millions of lives.
The government ordered 500,000 purple hearts for the invasion of Japan.
We still haven't used them all in all the wars since.
Taking and holding mainland Japan would have been an absolute horrorshow and while it was horrible for those people in those cities, in all likelihood many of them would have died in the invasion or fighting afterward.

The real moral test is when you don't know for sure how many lives, if any, will be spared if you kill this one person.
Then you are gambling with your soul.

[[R-DEV]Masaq]

Which is a fine example of sacrificing a few to save the many, had Japan had already made overtures to both the Russians and to America about conditional surrender prior to the bomb being dropped.

[1rankman]

i got a question for on the same sort of subject
if the doctor gave you one month to live max due to some condition
but also gave you the option to die now to save another mans life you didnt know through organ transplant eg lungs
basicly one month of your life in return the rest of some one else life
would you do it?

[[R-DEV]OkitaMakoto]

Originally Posted by 1rankman

i got a question for on the same sort of subject
if the doctor gave you one month to live max due to some condition
but also gave you the option to die now to save another mans life you didnt know through organ transplant eg lungs
basicly one month of your life in return the rest of some one else life
would you do it?

gimme a few days out of that month and sure. Just enough time to say "so long" to those nearest to me.

Aside from that, a month at the end of your life probably isnt too worth it, imho. But as long as I had a few days to send myself off, Id be more than willing to save a life.

Plus I could be a total prick to the receiver and be all like "Im freaking giving up my month for you, so dont f**k it up, ok? No pressure, Im just sayin' is all..."

:P

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

Why is this thread still showing new like some one posted recently ?
I keep seeing it and coming in and it is the same last post.
Very strange.

[georgehu2007]

it does that every time someone votes. I asked about this before.