2007-08-31 16:48:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Depends on who had to killed and who had to be saved. As horrible as it sounds. I would hate to find out a good person was killed to save the lives of a thousand rapist, murders and child molesters. I'd rather get rid of one of those people and save a thousand good people. I hope in reality I'd rather just not kill at all...could I have some kill me instead of killing someone else? I think I would have way to much guilt it I'd have to kill a good person.
2007-08-31 18:04:12 · answer #1 · answered by Ghoulina 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No and the ethical logic that supports that is ridiculous. You kill, for that you give up all you hold to be good and honest in yourself. You have sacraficed the integrity of all thousand people you saved and yourself by doing so. Killing is wrong whether to save someone or not. There is no place or time where killing someone will guarantee a life, and even if so it could not guarantee a life that would be honest and fruitfull and fufilling. It is not the quantity of life that needs saving but the quality. Killing no matter who it is hurts the quality.
2007-08-31 17:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if I could. That's pretty heavy for someone like me but if I saved ten thousand because say this one had a bomb or something then I would do what had to be done for the safety of the others. Then I would have to live with what happened but I would find comfort in the fact so many lived.
2016-05-18 03:38:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well I would actually evaluate this. If I had to kill one terrorist to save 1,000 people on a plane, of course. kinda hard to bring a gun onto a plane though isn't it? If my sister, mother, or brother went crazy one day and took an AK47 to the top of a highly populated building, (call me heartless but,) I would kill them just as easily as if I didn't know them. if they were under some sort of circumstance that If I killed them, I would save a thousand people I didn't know, but it wasn't their fault, sadly, I would go under the logic that the Earth is overpopulated anyways. If I didn't know the person under those circumstances, somehow I knew it wasn't their fault, I would do the same. It really depends on the situation. But I can say that I wouldn't give my family any special treatment.
2007-08-31 17:13:58 · answer #4 · answered by Fundamenta- list Militant Atheist 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on who I was killing to save.
2007-08-31 17:05:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No try to find its solution other than killing. If one person is going to kill 1000 persons. Ultimately, you should hold-up such person rather to kill him. Killing one person or 1000 is same thing killing is killing. Which can never justifiable.
2007-08-31 19:02:03 · answer #6 · answered by Advocate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but I would kill MYSELF to save another.
2007-09-01 02:27:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I wouldn't do it. It wouldn't be right. The thousand human lives wouldn't be my responsibility, but the one would be.
2007-09-02 09:29:35 · answer #8 · answered by kcchaplain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. It isn't my responsibility to save you or others. Try religion for those types of issues.
2007-08-31 20:13:25 · answer #9 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Without a doubt.
2007-08-31 17:10:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋