(June 24, 2014 at 6:45 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(June 24, 2014 at 5:13 am)pocaracas Wrote: Is it?
Always?
Are you sure?
Ever heard of the trolley problem? And others like that...
Reality is a bitch. Never say always! (Never say never, too, but oh well!)
Under some circumstances, it is morally permissible to kill an innocent human being.
No it isn't.
In that example you're choosing between two immoral acts, one worse than the other. You can choose to make only one person die instead of five.
It seems to me that, of both actions, at least one is inevitable. How can an inevitability be immoral?
Morality lies with the conscious decision making process by someone, does it not?
The way I see it (and I may be wrong, of course), the action here is to act and doom one person (previously safe) to die... or not to act and allow more than one person to die.
It is comparable to some abortions that are made.
For others (most) it would be stretching the analogy a bit too much, I admit. Another analogy would be required.
But the point is that premise 1. is faulty, thus the whole argument falls.