RE: Given a chance would you kill baby Hitler?
November 14, 2015 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2015 at 9:36 pm by IATIA.)
(November 14, 2015 at 8:43 pm)Evie Wrote: Intentions matter regardless of whether it's through direct or indirect means. And even if entirely accidental, it's still a tragedy from a consequential perspective when a baby dies.
Of course, like I said though, when it comes to ethics: Intentions matter.
Apply that line of thought to the "trolley problem". Noting is that simple. All we can shoot for is the greater good.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
