To what extremes can survival go to & still be moral....?

Question

such as saving our Earth Mother and war.

Answer 1

To the extremities of death.

Answer 2

To the extreme that most others would see someones acts of survival as necessary and justified.

Answer 3

legally speaking, you can kill a person in self defence but law cannot touch you , but the threat must be reasonable. i think same applies in a moral sense. the threat must be resonable to your life. if it is not i feel the world will consider your act immoral. also killing someone to save yourself can also be justified on utilitarian grounds, as you save one and kill one. but the situation becomes really intresting when you may have to kill more than one person to sav yourself. i think as the number increases it will be considered less and less moral. plus the character of the persons involved and the reason why your life is in danger may also be considered. for example you may be on the hit as your being dead may be good for the country for whatever reason. but to the person himself, i think killing a few persons when his life is in danger and they are not ABSOLUTELY justified in wanting to kill him is sure to be felt moral. but as the number of perosns start increasing then to even oneself it may start becoming more and more immoral, although presumably at a much slower rate then the same would look to others. although i think, killing n number of people could be justified PARTIALLY to oneself.
thanks for the wonderful question.

Answer 4

to any lengths, there are so many schools of morality, that one can justfiy any action as moral under some school or other.