Again I am bored. Surpassingly more often than I probably should be. I thought I would spice things up a little with a few moral dilemmas! 1. A runaway trolley car is hurtling down a track. In its path are five people who will definitely be killed unless you, a bystander, flip a switch which will divert it on to another track, where it will kill one person. Should you flip the switch? 2. The runaway trolley car is hurtling down a track where it will kill five people. You are standing on a bridge above the track and, aware of the imminent disaster, you decide to jump on the track to block the trolley car. Although you will die, the five people will be saved.Just before your leap, you realise that you are too light to stop the trolley. Next to you, a fat man is standing on the very edge of the bridge. He would certainly block the trolley, although he would undoubtedly die from the impact. A small nudge and he would fall right onto the track below. No one would ever know. Should you push him?3. An enormous rock falls and blocks the exit of a cave you and five other tourists have been exploring. Fortunately, you spot a hole elsewhere and decide to let "Big Jack" out first. But Big Jack, a man of generous proportions, gets stuck in the hole. He cannot be moved and there is no other way out.The high tide is rising and, unless you get out soon, everyone but Big Jack (whose head is sticking out of the cave) will inevitably drown. Searching through your backpack, you find a stick of dynamite. It will not move the rock, but will certainly blast Big Jack out of the hole. Big Jack, anticipating your thoughts, pleads for his life. He does not want to die, but neither do you and your four companions. Should you blast Big Jack out?My answers are:1. Flip switch2. Push fatty3. Blow up "Big Jack" with the dynamite you (a tourist) happened to find in your backpack.Mr. Nuts P.s if anyone has any more moral dilemmas feel free to post them in the same fashion I have. Also if anyone feels they want to explain their answers, go ahead and we should have a nice little heated debate!
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Moral Dilemmas
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Yes, yes and yes. And your poll doesn't work.
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In these kind of situations you don't get a choice of trying another way! And they will always die! Rawr!
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2. No, I can't sacrifice someone else's life without their consent
You're effectively doing the same to the 5 people about to be hit.
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i wouldn't do anything on any of them.i could never purposley kill anyone.
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- Is my x wife in ether track ? where she is, thats teh fuckers being killed, or if th five are politicians, those five fucks are going splickety splack.2. Fat Boy gets it.3. You know knothing of explosives, or of caves, your fucked no matter what, but id pull big jacks ass out, you can always get the other 3 people and you to help, after that jack can blow himself up or drown, its his choice.f
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Assuming you have no other choices, yes, no, no. In the first instance, you have to assume the one person would think like yourself...and if you were one to sacrifice yourself as we see in #2, then you'd rather die as the one person then let the other five die. In #2 and #3 though, you have the opportunity to let the other person decide for themself as to what actions they should take...if they should jump, or if they should allow themselves to be blown up. You're forced to assume in #1, but in #2 and #3, since you're not forced to assume, you'd be playing God by deciding who lives and who dies. A person should be willing to sacrifice themself for the greater good, but should not be forced to make such a decision.
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What would you do if said people in #2 and #3 chose not to sacrifice themselves?
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#2 - nothing#3 - die
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1,2 um, tell the dumbasses to get off the track? you never said they were stuck there,but if theyre gunna be stupid enough to stand in the way oh welland i dont know pretty much jack squat about explosives but how am i to know it wont cause the entire cave to collapse killin everyone?
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These things are not suppose to have alternate solutions. I could think of countless things you could do. These are suppose to be questions which highlight the basics of a situation and you choose what you would do. These are just meant to show you whether you will take one life to save another (or many).So basically what I am saying is shut up about technicalities and just answer the bloody question! Yes or No.NO OTHER WAYMr. Nutsp.s. I know the pole doesn't really work, you can only have one poll per post, I was going to have one per each option.n.b. grvtykllr, your right , I do know fuck shit all about explosives and caves. Please could you educate me with no doubt your highly experienced and professional knowledge.
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Your absolutely right, Im ama proffesional, so take your snide remark and stuff it in your ass.Iv been climbing rock and ice and spelunking vertical shafts and caves for nearly a fucing decade. Iv also made alot of money doing explosives work, qualified DOT inspections for hazardous waste and explosives, as wel as alot of time inspecting military explosives and bombs and static fire demil for unwanted or needed explosives for the military, Iv dealt all four branches working for the Department of Defense, Dont ever pretend tho think I dont know about explosives ofr how to use them or make them.
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Okay, I'm into it, but I gotta say I hope you didn't think these things up, yourself...'cause they're about the dumbest situations I can imagine.#1 I'd flip the switch if I didn't have the opportunity to yell...otherwise I'd have to watch them all die for being so clueless.#2 I'd still want to yell or watch them buy it. As for fatty...he could definitely go because the likelihood is he won't live too much longer, anyway, given his ability to stop a trolley just by his weight.#3 Who the hell let the fat guy go first???? Jesus, that has to be the dumbest part of this...especially because there's no way he could have beat the rest of them to the opening! Okay, to answer the question...if tubby wedges himself into the only exit, that stick of dynamite is going right into his ass, provided I and the other 3 can't pull his lard-ass out of that hole. But you can bet if I had to light that dynamite, I'd convince the other 3 people to shelter under tubby's body when the explosion occurred.
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NO. they shouldnt be standing on the track so its thier own fault if they get smushed they should have been more careful.
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Thats basicly the same question as 1 exept for the fat guy element. Still NO, i value my own life far too dearly to trade it for 5 crazy people on the tracks so i wouldnt consider jumping. But if i did consider jumping id leave the five fools to thier fates because playing on the tracks is more bloody stupid than standing on the edge of a bridge. The crux of my argument is NO.
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I certainly would blast big jack out of there, if the dynamite wont kill us it might not kill him. And anyway call me selfish but i value my life more than anyone else's in these scenarios and almost anyone's in the world.
If i needed to id let everyone in the cave die just so i could escape. So YES.
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