The Value of Human Life (a poll for BigSooner)

[hmkpoker]

Think of the person you love most in your life. It could be your mum, your pa, your girlfriend, your son...heck, it could even be you.

Got someone in mind? Good.

That person has a terminal illness that will cause him/her to die a horrible, horrible death over the next year. There is a cure. It is 100% effective, and remarkably cheap. All you have to do to get it is to press a button, which will enable a death ray in space to vaporize ten random starving African children. You will never have met these children otherwise, and no one will ever connect you to the killing.

What'll it be?

[henrikrh]

YES!!! the results of the poll made me laugh out loud!

[hmkpoker]

It's really sad how far I'm willing to go to prove people's stupidity to them [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[fuego527]

he isnt stupid

he just cares more about people than most

[mr_whomp]

HMKpoker, theres two ways to go here. Utilitarian, (the greatest good); or deontology (outcome matters less than the morality of the action itself).

Actually 4 ways to go...

Utilitarian
deontology
virtue-based (should do whatever a person i look up to as a role model would do)
divine belief (should do whatever god says to do)

so your answer to this question depends on which of these you use to frame your ethical/moral belief system. I think also that a utilitarian (greater good) could go both ways on the issue.

[hmkpoker]

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HMKpoker, theres two ways to go here. Utilitarian, (the greatest good); or deontology (outcome matters less than the morality of the action itself).

Actually 4 ways to go...

Utilitarian
deontology
virtue-based (should do whatever a person i look up to as a role model would do)
divine belief (should do whatever god says to do)

so your answer to this question depends on which of these you use to frame your ethical/moral belief system. I think also that a utilitarian (greater good) could go both ways on the issue.

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No, there's more.

Feminist (that which most advances the equality of women in society)

PETA-ian (that which helps liberate the cute animals most)

Lollypop Guildian (that which helps promote the existence, and eventually hostil takeover of the world by midgets from Oz)

Discordian (five pounds of flax)

l337 h4X0rian (7h47 \/\/h1(h pWns t3h m057 n00bs!!!!!!!11eleven)

BigSoonerFan Mockian (that which furthers my plight to ridicule BigSoonerFan)

[BigSoonerFan]

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It's really sad how far I'm willing to go to prove people's stupidity to them [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Stupid? Doubtful. Naive? Maybe. If this is an accurate representation of people's feelings, then it certainly illustrates the moral decline that seems to be accelerating of late. I've always said that man's biggest deficiency is selfishness and this certainly reflects that.

[hmkpoker]

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It's really sad how far I'm willing to go to prove people's stupidity to them [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Stupid? Doubtful. Naive? Maybe. If this is an accurate representation of people's feelings, then it certainly illustrates the moral decline that seems to be accelerating of late. I've always said that man's biggest deficiency is selfishness and this certainly reflects that.

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No, it simply suggests that there is more to the value of human life than quantity.

[Aytumious]

I'd say the results so far have been exactly what you'd expect.

[BigSoonerFan]

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It's really sad how far I'm willing to go to prove people's stupidity to them [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Stupid? Doubtful. Naive? Maybe. If this is an accurate representation of people's feelings, then it certainly illustrates the moral decline that seems to be accelerating of late. I've always said that man's biggest deficiency is selfishness and this certainly reflects that.

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No, it simply suggests that there is more to the value of human life than quantity.

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It has nothing to do with quantity. It has to do with killing innocent people, which I thought most people would think is wrong. It doesn't matter if it is one child or ten million children.