Had I asked "Love or money?" most will answer -- perhaps unthinking "LOVE CONQUER'S ALL!"
My question is more involved than that.
If approached by someone who informs you that if you "allow" a person to die (by neglect, delay of response, or ignoring abuse) for a price, what would that price be?
Honest answers only. All sermons will get "thumbs down."
2007-01-12 15:17:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I'm not sure what you mean by the paragraph that starts "If approached by someone who..."
I will not "allow" a person to die if the price I have to pay for saving him would not tend to be a danger to me. But in the same way that I don't expect other people to risk their lives for me. I should not be expected to risk my life for other people. When I do decide to take that risk on behalf of another, it would be because I freely believe that this particular life is worth the risk. I hope this answers the question.
When you lend someone your hand, you should not be expected to give your arm as well. Charity is not an obligation, or else it wouldn't be charity but duty.
2007-01-12 15:47:13 · answer #1 · answered by ragdefender 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If I were a corporation, because you know corporations are people too, then the price would be produced after a cost-effect analysis.
I wouldn't allow any friend or family member to die for any price. But if I don't know you, and the money is on the table, well I'm not a doctor, and I'm not a samaratin. I'm an American. I say show me the money.
2007-01-12 23:44:08 · answer #2 · answered by uberkultur 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no cost to empathy; only consequence for lack of it.
A poem by John Donne puts it very eloquently:
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..."
2007-01-12 23:26:14 · answer #3 · answered by Costy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So instead of "Love or Money," you're asking "Money or Ethics?"
Well... I like to think that I wouldn't allow anyone to die for ANY amount of money.
I hope my theory is never tested.
2007-01-12 23:22:25 · answer #4 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't allow illusions to die, my price would only be to
absolve mine/there's forgiveness.
I AM
2007-01-12 23:33:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we're letting people die all the time in Iraq, and we're not even getting any money for it.
2007-01-13 00:12:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
apathy
2007-01-13 00:02:50 · answer #7 · answered by matthew m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋