A small boat contains 10 volunteers from the Peace Corp and the Red Cross and another large boat contains1200 hardened criminals guilty of the most heinous of crimes. Both boats are slowly sinking and you only have one wine cork to plug the hole. Which boat do you save Pav? So you see it's not just about numbers!
On Feb 7, 1:39 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > People are stuck with whatever organs they have. It would be > ridiculous to think it acceptable to kill someone for their healthy > organs. > > Surely you should send the > tram left, killing one to save five. <<Pav > > Surely I would run over 5 slime bags to save the one good person on > the left. > > There is more to all these little case scenarios that you present. > > On Feb 6, 10:25 pm, Pavan Kolachoor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is a famous philosophical question posted by > > BBC.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7739493.stm > > > I never got an opportunity to discuss this with anybody, your thoughts > > please. > > > *1. SHOULD WE KILL HEALTHY PEOPLE FOR THEIR ORGANS?* > > > Suppose Bill is a healthy man without family or loved ones. Would it be ok > > painlessly to kill him if his organs would save five people, one of whom > > needs a heart, another a kidney, and so on? If not, why not? > > > Consider another case: you and six others are kidnapped, and the kidnapper > > somehow persuades you that if you shoot dead one of the other hostages, he > > will set the remaining five free, whereas if you do not, he will shoot all > > six. (Either way, he'll release you.) > > > If in this case you should kill one to save five, why not in the previous, > > organs case? If in this case too you have qualms, consider yet another: > > you're in the cab of a runaway tram and see five people tied to the track > > ahead. You have the option of sending the tram on to the track forking off > > to the left, on which only one person is tied. Surely you should send the > > tram left, killing one to save five. > > > But then why not kill Bill? > > > -- > > Regards, > > > Pavan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
