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Originally Posted by neilmarr
A becoming-famous example is that of the man on the railway track.
Is it moral to deliberately change the points so that you divert the midnight special to knock him down and kill him? Of course not. That's cold-blooded murder. Our hard wiring tells us so. A no brainer, eh?
But ... is it ethical and moral to sacrifice that stranger's life if it saves the train from a line blockage and potentially saves a half-dozen other lives? Hmmm ...
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Pfft... that's an easy one!
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one."
Or, to put it another way, at least the one guy has a chance of stepping off the track in time, whereas those on the train are helpless to protect themselves.
Come on! Give me a
hard one! A real brain-Twizzler!
(Funny as it sounds, now we're getting closer to answering my original question!)