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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!

Divert the train toward the ducks.
Then yell "Toot! Toot! and the idiots standing on the other track will all get scared to death.
There then, you got all twenty.

People are more fun than ducks because they understand the concepts of fear and death.
Oh, wait, you said important.
People are more important than ducks because they understand that "duck!" means something bad is going to happen, and it's important for an innocent victim to be aware of impending doom.
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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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