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On morality: Death vs extreme suffering

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On morality: Death vs extreme suffering
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RE: On morality: Death vs extreme suffering
May 8, 2009 at 5:20 pm
It is, for example, generally and universally, ok to divert a train from hitting 5 people if there is a person on the other line?

It is not ok to push a fat man off a bridge to stop the train and save the people?

Sorry - just made me think of those Smile

My Mum always taught me to prevent suffering at all cost! Kill a bug rather than let it suffer.

Depressed, very depressed people consider it better to die than live. For them there's only hope that things will get better. Things may well do but the pain of the moment is what usually focuses the mind and it can be impossible to envisage happy times.
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On morality: Death vs extreme suffering

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RE: On morality: Death vs extreme suffering - by fr0d0 - May 8, 2009 at 5:20 pm
RE: On morality: Death vs extreme suffering - by Giff - May 14, 2009 at 4:02 am
RE: On morality: Death vs extreme suffering - by Giff - May 22, 2009 at 8:37 am
RE: On morality: Death vs extreme suffering - by Violet - January 27, 2010 at 5:22 pm
RE: On morality: Death vs extreme suffering - by Meatball - January 27, 2010 at 5:59 pm
RE: On morality: Death vs extreme suffering - by Watson - January 27, 2010 at 5:36 pm
RE: On morality: Death vs extreme suffering - by Violet - January 27, 2010 at 6:15 pm

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