(September 7, 2014 at 10:50 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: The ends do not justify the means, especially when human beings are viewed as the means.What if ebola went super-viral, fully-airborne, and it was determined that the only way to eradicate it was to completely isolate every community with cases? And in each community, each block with a case was isolated, and in each block, each building with a case was isolated, and so on?
This would probably mean the death of those closest to victims, but could save the human species from as many as 3 billion deaths. Are you sure that isolating the victims would be wrong, even though it is essentially murder?
