RE: Will you share your food (serious question)
January 11, 2018 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2018 at 11:51 am by DLJ.)
(January 11, 2018 at 1:12 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: The question is similar to Peter Singer's drowning child argument.
http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/singer/
Interesting. But poorly worded.
I fell at the first hurdle. I chose the option stating that there is no moral obligation to rescue the child.
Response: Are you serious?
Then there was no, "yes, fuck off" option.
Similarly, there is no moral obligation to give them the ice cream. And it would entirely depend upon my mood as to whether I would do so.
One ice cream is not going to save them.
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The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)


