Old Philosophical Question

[DoomSlice]

Let's pretend that you are living during the Holocaust and you are hiding with a group of 20 or so people in a hollowed out wall. With you is your 3 week old baby. All of a sudden you hear noises at the door and realize that it is a pair of Nazi soldiers coming to inspect the house and will send everyone who is found to a concentration camp to die. Your baby, sensing something is wrong, starts to cry. You have two options:

1) Let your baby cry, and be sure that all of you will be caught and killed

2) Smother your baby, killing it but saving everyone else

Well?

[theweatherman]

If discovered the baby will die anyways, so you would obviously sacrifice it to save the others.

[Tilt]

Its terribly wrong to even think about this like its just some OOT fun. You obviously have never been a parent.

[fluxrad]

Some will vote for option one. All will do option two.

T minus 90 seconds and counting until someone says this belongs in politics.

[DoomSlice]

From time to time tough questions have to be asked. There is obviously no right answer to this.

[RandBriscoe]

There is a right answer and it is option two. The parent is in no way to blame. The blame lies with the interloping Nazi that places the "hider" in this terribly unenviable position. Moral indiscretions are justified in the context of one's rights being violated.

One must, in this situation, take the course that allows the Nazi to do the least harm.

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If discovered the baby will die anyways, so you would obviously sacrifice it to save the others.

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Ditto

[InchoateHand]

Neither odd nor particular philosophical, but then again I get off on skulffucking little babies.

[Sephus]

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Neither odd nor particular philosophical, but then again I get off on skulffucking little babies.

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just trolling.

[InchoateHand]

Me or the OP? I kind of thought the OP, and I respond in kind.