Ethical dilemma: Kill one to save others ?
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Ethical dilemma: Kill one to save others ?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 56842.html
If you could travel back in time, would you kill Hitler (or Pol Pot) ? Men are more likely to say yes according to this study.
Difficult moral questions, but hypothetical. I wonder what sort of answers you would get from Cambodians who had to survive during the Pol Pot regime ? This article puts the emphasis on the fact that men are readier to kill for the common good than women, but i'm not sure this is true if their children are directly threatened ?
Intriguing questions which don't give entirely satisfactory answers IMO.
If you could travel back in time, would you kill Hitler (or Pol Pot) ? Men are more likely to say yes according to this study.
....It is a common ethical dilemma set by philosophy professors – is it right to kill someone to prevent further deaths?
According to scientists the answer differs depending on your gender, with women less likely to commit murder because they have a stronger aversion to harmful action.
Researchers from the US, Germany and Canada analysed data that asked 6,100 people a range moral questions, including whether they would kill a young Adolf Hitler to stop the Second World War.
While men and women both calculated the consequences of their decision and computed how many lives might be saved, females found it harder to commit murder and were more likely to let Hitler live.
Another scenario imagined a member of a group hiding from soldiers being handed a crying baby. Participants were asked whether they would smother the child to save the group or let it live and be caught.
A hypothetical situation that did not involve murder questioned whether a person would be willing to have their daughter carry out sex work, so they could buy food for the rest of their starving family.
Difficult moral questions, but hypothetical. I wonder what sort of answers you would get from Cambodians who had to survive during the Pol Pot regime ? This article puts the emphasis on the fact that men are readier to kill for the common good than women, but i'm not sure this is true if their children are directly threatened ?
Intriguing questions which don't give entirely satisfactory answers IMO.
Re: Ethical dilemma: Kill one to save others ?
why would I kill Hitler ? He was a good man who freed his country from Jewish banksters. He was declared war upon by UK and France , yet offered them peace many times so that he could rid the world of bolscevic scum , but again the Jews used their international influence to reject his peace proposals and to trick UK and USA into fighting him , in spite of the evidence they had no interest in doing that (for UK the war actually costed her the Empire). If I could travel in time, I'd rather kill Churchill and Roosevelt instead. That would have ended the terror reign of Soviet Union, prevented Mao take power in China and saved tens of millions lives.
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Re: Ethical dilemma: Kill one to save others ?
I think it is time to ban Gaudente. He's made it perfectly clear he's either actually this fucked up or he's just trolling and ruining the flow of conversation on purpose. Either way he contributes nothing.
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Re: Ethical dilemma: Kill one to save others ?
I think I have to agree with you.MekongMouse wrote:I think it is time to ban Gaudente. He's made it perfectly clear he's either actually this fucked up or he's just trolling and ruining the flow of conversation on purpose. Either way he contributes nothing.
It's just one questionable post after another.
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Re: Ethical dilemma: Kill one to save others ?
Now we can debate whether it is ethical to ban Gaudente in order to save CEO?
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Re: Ethical dilemma: Kill one to save others ?
Some people say that Hitler shortened the War by being drugged up and crazy.
But they did try to off him at first then called off later attempts.
But they did try to off him at first then called off later attempts.
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Re: Ethical dilemma: Kill one to save others ?
I should've known that the H word would bring out the crazies. But it was in the original article so can't really call it a godwin.
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Yes. It is.MekongMouse wrote:Now we can debate whether it is ethical to ban Gaudente in order to save CEO?
Is it a sock?
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