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Old 10-12-2007, 01:57 PM
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Default how many people would you kill to save your child\'s life?

i think this thread might have been done before, but not in this forum. You can push a button and it will kill a bunch of random or your child dies. What is the highest number of people you would kill to save your child?
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Old 10-12-2007, 02:11 PM
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Default Re: how many people would you kill to save your child\'s life?

I think this question is kinda dumb. The human moral sense is not adapted to deal with this, and so I think a lot of what we spit out on the subject is just garbage.
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Old 10-12-2007, 02:17 PM
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Default Re: how many people would you kill to save your child\'s life?

What a silly question. Except for my wife, there is no one on the face of this Earth I'd save before my kids. So, I guess the answer is 6 billion or so.
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Old 10-12-2007, 02:53 PM
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i think this thread might have been done before, but not in this forum. You can push a button and it will kill a bunch of random or your child dies. What is the highest number of people you would kill to save your child?

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I think for most parents, the answer is, "as many as it takes."
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Old 10-12-2007, 02:57 PM
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I would have to go with zero. I would not want other people pushing buttons that could randomly kill me and my family, so I won't push the same button when offered. Obviously if i was there on the spot and my kid was screaming and yelling and about to die I might change my mind. But in the general case, I don't feel qualified to make the judgment as to when X is a high or low enough number to be OK.
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Old 10-12-2007, 03:01 PM
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I would have to go with zero. I would not want other people pushing buttons that could randomly kill me and my family, so I won't push the same button when offered.

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sidetrack: would you push a button that gives you a billion dollars cash?
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Old 10-12-2007, 03:24 PM
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I would have to go with zero. I would not want other people pushing buttons that could randomly kill me and my family, so I won't push the same button when offered.

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sidetrack: would you push a button that gives you a billion dollars cash?

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If I knew the billion dollars was going to be compiled by randomly stealing it from other people, no.
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Old 10-12-2007, 03:28 PM
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I would have to go with zero. I would not want other people pushing buttons that could randomly kill me and my family, so I won't push the same button when offered.

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sidetrack: would you push a button that gives you a billion dollars cash?

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If I knew the billion dollars was going to be compiled by randomly stealing it from other people, no.

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it's conjured out of thin air.
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Old 10-13-2007, 01:12 AM
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sidetrack: would you push a button that gives you a billion dollars cash?

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If I knew the billion dollars was going to be compiled by randomly stealing it from other people, no.

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it's conjured out of thin air.

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well then i would go for the $1B. what moral trap did i just step into? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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Old 10-13-2007, 02:01 PM
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I would have to go with zero. I would not want other people pushing buttons that could randomly kill me and my family, so I won't push the same button when offered.

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sidetrack: would you push a button that gives you a billion dollars cash?

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If I knew the billion dollars was going to be compiled by randomly stealing it from other people, no.

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it's conjured out of thin air.

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This is technically counterfeit money and pretty much equivalent to the question "if you had an infallible counterfeiting machine and no chance of getting caught would you use it?" Maybe this was obvious, just an observation. It is stealing in the sense that it contributes to inflation, devaluing the money of others.
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