Will you sacrifice 1 to save 10?
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Will you handle the responsibility and kill 1 to save 10? Or will you instead abstain from pressing the button, thus not killing anyone but letting 10 people die? Why?
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Will you sacrifice the life of one person to save the lives of ten?
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| Yes | 61.90% (26) | |
| No | 38.10% (16) |
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Will you handle the responsibility and kill 1 to save 10? Or will you instead abstain from pressing the button, thus not killing anyone but letting 10 people die? Why?
Alistaire: No one. Let's say it's a random person that is in no way affiliated with you. He isn't morally good, nor is he morally bad, completely neutral. palomino has written@ Alistaire: No one. Let's say it's a random person that is in no way affiliated with you. He isn't morally good, nor is he morally bad, completely neutral.
Alistaire: No one. Let's say it's a random person that is in no way affiliated with you. He isn't morally good, nor is he morally bad, completely neutral.Then who cares. Why not wait, it's not like you're murdering anyone that way.
Alistaire: But that is the point.If you press the button you will know you murdered someone, but you will also know you saved 10 people.
If you don't press the button you will know you let 10 people die.
This would have been a much better question if we were to chose between our own life and that of ten people. 99% of the people here would save themselves.
Nobody have right to decide about other's life, imo.
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Button pressed:
10 alive, 1 dead
Otherwise:
10 dead, 1 alive
(10-1=9) or (1-10=-9) ? Of course if 1 human = 1 human(paradoxically, they aren't always equal).
"Kill all of them"
It depends on the importance of the subjects. If the one person is super-important i would sabe him, if not, i will kill him to save the rest.
Avo: That would be too easy because then either most here would press "Yes" without thinking, or "No", again without thinking.While right now the lives of other people are in your hands.
palomino has writtenYou have a button in front of you. If you press it one person will die, but you will save ten people. If you don't press it that one person won't die but those ten people will.
Will you handle the responsibility and kill 1 to save 10? Or will you instead abstain from pressing the button, thus not killing anyone but letting 10 people die? Why?
Will you handle the responsibility and kill 1 to save 10? Or will you instead abstain from pressing the button, thus not killing anyone but letting 10 people die? Why?
Needless thread
In reality, nobody would choose 10innocents peoples deaths for one..
Mechanics Faith has writtenNeedless thread
Something tells me you are either Fartis or Sapling.