[syndicate] MORAL DILEMMAS

[MWP]

why do you want to know ?

m


on 5/22/04 12:50 PM, Frederic Madre at fmadre at free.fr wrote:

> why do you ask ?
> 
> f.
> 
> 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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