Question of the Day

[Celtic]

Okay, so this is another question that I came up with.

Would you kill one person in order to save 100 people?

To take a step further, would you kill one person you are familiar with (say a cousin) in order to save 100 people?

Can I cripple all 100 of them and save my friend?

[MaineBleedsGreen]

Okay, so this is another question that I came up with.

Would you kill one person in order to save 100 people?

To take a step further, would you kill one person you are familiar with (say a cousin) in order to save 100 people?

Nope.  Human over-population will be our demise on this planet someday.  Let darwin take care of the 100 people.

I like your answer. I don't think I'd do it either, but the way it is phrased allows us to keep our hands clean, it's easy to say no I wouldn't kill, and "let" the others die. I've heard it asked another way, something to the affect of a locomotive is speeding down the track towards a split, if it goes left it kills one person from your family. If it goes right it kills 100 random strangers (i've also heard it as 10 friends - so to remove the element of being detached from the strangers). It this scenerio you HAVE to choose, and your choice is what ultimately leads to one death, or multiple deaths.


To the first question I'd eliminate skin color. Everyone could just be, say, blue. I'd like to say I'd eliminate prejudice, or all evil, or greed/selfishness of any kind, but I don't think a Utopian society has a realistic chance of surviving. If we didn't have evil in this world who would we have to look down on to make ourselves feel morally superior? haha. So I say atleast eliminate skin color, and you'll get rid of the cause of my biggest pet peeve, racial and ethno biases.

 I guess my second biggest pet peeve is homelessness ... not the homeless themselves mind you, but the idea that there are people who don't even have that basic human right of shelter and food. It would be nice to eliminate that as well.

OH!! we could also get rid of religion, or get rid of the mysteries surrounding it, so we can actually know whether there is a "God"/"Gods", afterlife, ect ... Don't get me wrong, I'm not an atheist, and I'm completely accepting of people who not only are, but of anyones belief systems, but Religion has been the motivation behind some of the worst acts in human history, and it is just so ironic and contradictory to the basic principle of believing in a higher power that exists for the greater good.

[Redz]

The vision of watching the made for TV Holocaust saga way back when comes to mind.  There was the scene where the family was hiding in a wall or something and the Nazi's were searching the building.  The baby started fussing and the mother, silently sobbing the whole time, had to hold her hand over its mouth - eventually suffocating the wee one, but saving the rest of her family from being discovered.

It's in our nature to survive a t all costs.  With that can come some brutal decisions.  The only thing I can think of in my life that even comes in the least bit comparable is a scenario where I had to choose the safety of loved pet over a child.  I don't even remember the exact situation, just that the thought process.  Obviously a no brainer, but the point is I was willing to choose one life or another, and I think that's the gist of the question.

[D Dub]

Okay, so this is another question that I came up with.

Would you kill one person in order to save 100 people?

To take a step further, would you kill one person you are familiar with (say a cousin) in order to save 100 people?

Nope.  Human over-population will be our demise on this planet someday.  Let darwin take care of the 100 people.

.......but Religion has been the motivation behind some of the worst acts in human history, and it is just so ironic and contradictory to the basic principle of believing in a higher power that exists for the greater good.

Maybe that is just God diversifying his portfolio in an effort to keep us all from over-running the planet?


It is possible that death isn't the be all end all.  No one knows for sure, but all around us we witness the circle of life; whether it be in the sea with fish, or in the forests where wild fires provide a clean canvas with plenty of carbon fertalizer to start over with.  One being dies in the name of prolonging another being.  Without taking the lives of animals and plants alike - humans couldn't survive on earth..