--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyhow, if one changes the example such that on the second floor > > are > > 150 Senior Citizens, I suspect that most people save the infants > > first. Of course, I doubt that you would then be reaching the > > conclusions that Senior Citizens don't have the "right to live" > > or > > that Senior Citizens aren't equal, and that killing a citizen > > isn't > > murder. > > Nice sidestep, and nice way to avoid the answer.
It is an answer. Either you answer "yes you would still rescue the infants", and thus your whole set of subsequent arguments are now invalid, or you answer "I would be indifferent to saving the two" or else "I would save the Senior Citizens", in which case we would have a different discussion on our hands. Based on my presumption that you would still choose the infants in my example, I have provided my answer, but demonstrated that my answer doesn't demonstrate what you think it does. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
