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Another uncomfortable ethics question!
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RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question!
(October 30, 2010 at 9:17 am)ib.me.ub Wrote: 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 chose the ducks... Now I can still go duck hunting! Tiger

Quote:Well, yes they do taste good, but apparently, so do humans. But really have you ever seen a duck that has been hit by a train.

I've never seen what happens when a duck gets hit by a train, but now I want to see it ^_^

But in seriousness, humans aren't necessarily more important than ducks... but they almost always (if not always) have a greater capacity to do things, and I am very bored without things being done. Though they might all do bad things for me.... so maybe I would direct the train at the humans.

On a split second reaction, i would save the humans. That's my nature though, given time to think I might do the other.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 9:17 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Zen Badger - October 30, 2010 at 9:25 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Tiberius - October 30, 2010 at 9:25 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 9:29 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Zen Badger - October 30, 2010 at 9:32 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 9:34 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Violet - October 30, 2010 at 9:35 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Zen Badger - October 30, 2010 at 9:45 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Anomalocaris - October 31, 2010 at 11:03 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by downbeatplumb - October 30, 2010 at 10:13 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Violet - October 30, 2010 at 11:14 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Dotard - October 30, 2010 at 11:36 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Skipper - October 30, 2010 at 4:13 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Shell B - October 30, 2010 at 10:43 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by ib.me.ub - October 31, 2010 at 7:09 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Edwardo Piet - October 31, 2010 at 7:27 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by ib.me.ub - October 31, 2010 at 7:54 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Edwardo Piet - October 31, 2010 at 8:43 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by ib.me.ub - October 31, 2010 at 8:59 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Edwardo Piet - October 31, 2010 at 9:35 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by ib.me.ub - October 31, 2010 at 10:15 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Violet - November 1, 2010 at 10:34 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by MysterMenace - November 1, 2010 at 9:35 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by theVOID - November 1, 2010 at 10:22 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by theVOID - November 1, 2010 at 10:36 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Violet - November 1, 2010 at 10:48 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by theVOID - November 2, 2010 at 9:25 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Xyster - November 1, 2010 at 11:13 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Violet - November 2, 2010 at 4:20 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by The Skeptic - November 2, 2010 at 10:51 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by ib.me.ub - November 12, 2010 at 12:03 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by leo-rcc - November 12, 2010 at 9:43 am
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Autumnlicious - November 12, 2010 at 7:31 pm
RE: Another uncomfortable ethics question! - by Cando - November 12, 2010 at 7:37 pm

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