Who here would volunteer

[mackthefork]

to have one of their children disembowelled to save 6 people who need organ donations. Anyone who says they wouldn't, can you please stop applying math to situations involving human life.

Mack

[BZ_Zorro]

Amen.

I don't get what you're saying

Is this a logical argument or a request?

[mackthefork]

Both.

Mack

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Both.

Mack

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So your argument is:

Sometimes you are incapable of applying math/logic to a situation, therefore, you never should

[mackthefork]

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So your argument is:

Sometimes you are incapable of applying math/logic to a situation, therefore, you never should

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No my arguement is:

To the people who's opinion matters it is impossible to put a value on a human life. So a life is worth an infinite amount, therefore 1 life is = to 6 lives, in a manner of speaking.

Mack

[PLOlover]

So what does that say about US military doctors after world war 2 who gave pregnant women plutonium, just to see what would happen?

[bobman0330]

Your argument does not prove that. If it did, you should be indifferent between your child dying six other people dying. All it proves is that our moral intuitions do not coincide with any rational basis. This is not a reason to repudiate any rational thought about morality.

[mackthefork]

Hi Bobman

What cash value do you put on your remaining days, imagine no one you care about gets to keep the money if you die, how are you coming to the calculations. If I was going to die tommorrow, I would still refuse all the money in the world in order to keep that one day of life.

I still say math is an inappropriate way to decide who lives and dies. Lets say for example (purely for the sake of numbers), the AIDS epidemic will kill 2 billion people, but we can eradicate this possibility by slaughtering 1 billion people today, is this genocide justified by the net saving of 1 billion people?

Mack

[mackthefork]

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So what does that say about US military doctors after world war 2 who gave pregnant women plutonium, just to see what would happen?

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Sorry I'm not quite sure what you are asking me or why, care to clarify?

Mack