RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
November 24, 2015 at 7:37 pm
(This post was last modified: November 24, 2015 at 7:39 pm by Brian37.)
No way of knowing if the either is a good person or a bad person. Different version of throwing the fat guy off the bridge on the train tracks to stop the lose car to save those on that lose car.
Point is, what if you throw that fat guy off, and it turns out he was a child molester. Or, say he was a good guy but you don't know that, he stops the train car, you save everyone on the train, but one of them is Jeffery Dahmer as a kid.
Military sometime have to make quick decisions. As much as I hated Bush, on 9/11 if they could have shot down those jets before they hit the towers it would have killed everyone on the plane, but also would have saved everyone in the buildings, less lives lost.
The point of thought experiments like this is ultimately there is no right or wrong answer. It really has to be case by case.
Point is, what if you throw that fat guy off, and it turns out he was a child molester. Or, say he was a good guy but you don't know that, he stops the train car, you save everyone on the train, but one of them is Jeffery Dahmer as a kid.
Military sometime have to make quick decisions. As much as I hated Bush, on 9/11 if they could have shot down those jets before they hit the towers it would have killed everyone on the plane, but also would have saved everyone in the buildings, less lives lost.
The point of thought experiments like this is ultimately there is no right or wrong answer. It really has to be case by case.
