[syndicate] MORAL DILEMMAS

[Frederic Madre]

why do you ask ?

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At 20:25 22/05/2004, mpalmer at jps.net wrote:
>MORAL DILEMMAS
>IN 3 PARTS
>
>PART I
>
>Would you kill a person if it meant saving humanity?
>How about if it meant saving a million people?
>How about if it meant saving a thousand?
>How about if it meant saving one?
>How about if it meant saving a million of your worse enemies who only want 
>to kill you?
>How about if the person you had to kill to save humanity had the evil 
>intentions of a Hitler and the means to carry them out?
>How about if the person you had to kill to save humanity was your only child?
>How about if you had to destroy humanity to save your only child?
>How about if you had to kill yourself to save humanity?
>How about if you had to kill yourself to save a million people?
>How about if you had to kill yourself to save a thousand?
>How about if you had to kill yourself to save one person?
>How about if that one person you could save was your only child?
>
>
>PART II
>
>For "kill" in the above, substitute "torture" and redo where appropriate.
>Such as:
>Would you torture a person if it meant saving humanity?
>Etc.
>
>
>PART III
>
>For "torture" in the above, substitute "reveal the secrets of" and redo 
>where appropriate.
>Such as:
>Would you reveal the secrets of a person if it meant saving humanity?
>Etc.
>
>
>mwp
>
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