Another uncomfortable ethics question!

[theVOID]

You would kill humans before ducks? That's fucked up.

My initial reaction is to save them... but I'm open to reconsidering if I have a reason. Ie: if they appear to be armed (read: probable soldiers), I will probably revert my decision to save, unless I recognize them as fighting in my benefit.

It's remarkably hard to see people/ducks coming when you're in a train... especially in time to have any sort of long decision process.

Well that's precisely why the example generally calls for strangers.

[The Skeptic]

Well it's probably not so uncomfotable for most people around here, or most people period.

There is a train hurtling down the tracks towards 10 people, who are unable to escape. You can divert the train onto another set of tracks, but this set has 10 ducks on it, who are also unable to escape.

Which would you choose to survive?

And before you select the so called obvious answer, ask yourself why are people more important than ducks!

I would save the humans. The reason ducks are less important is they can drop shit bombs on your head if they are flying. at least people typically have the courage to attack you face to face. or at least from behind. But from above? That's just weak.

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Love the Cider, weird commercial though.

[Autumnlicious]

You would kill humans before ducks? That's fucked up.

My initial reaction is to save them... but I'm open to reconsidering if I have a reason. Ie: if they appear to be armed (read: probable soldiers), I will probably revert my decision to save, unless I recognize them as fighting in my benefit.

It's remarkably hard to see people/ducks coming when you're in a train... especially in time to have any sort of long decision process.

And Sae takes the cake for bringing in the action of considering each situation instead of making a blanket assumption.

Well done.

[Cando]

Well it's probably not so uncomfotable for most people around here, or most people period.

There is a train hurtling down the tracks towards 10 people, who are unable to escape. You can divert the train onto another set of tracks, but this set has 10 ducks on it, who are also unable to escape.

Which would you choose to survive?

And before you select the so called obvious answer, ask yourself why are people more important than ducks!

I'd let the train hit the ducks. You can't have a decent conversation with a duck, so they've got to go.