Discussion Sacrificing an innocent to save many

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by zhainan2157, Nov 26, 2018.

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So how many people?

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  1. fuzor100

    fuzor100 Standby mode...

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    Save the child. I'm sure all the kindhearted and good natured citizens don't want the cute child to die for them.
     
  2. Varno

    Varno True Member

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    None it would have anything to do wirh me. It isn't my choice to make.
     
  3. honglath

    honglath I miss my PC

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    A couple of things we know for sure in life:
    - everyone poops
    - everyone dies
    - everyone poops when dying

    So every which way you look at it, it's a shitty situation to have on your hands..

    That is why it is best to listen to your doctor's advice to maintain bodily hygiene and wash it all off. It is the right thing to do.

    But then again, if you have poop on your left hand and you also have poop on your right hand, it will be easier to dual-sling poop upon your enemies.

    If you are going to smell like poop no matter what, then it is best if everyone smells like poop together.
    Equality in all things.
     
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    SUNOFA Well-Known Member

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    But this one is not about money. It's just a question about what you value more: the life of a single child or that of multiple people...
    Basically, do you put more importance on the young, or the majority?
     
  5. reagents 11

    reagents 11 disaster personified

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    Lol same. If they had to resort into some kind of makeshift solution like that unable to save themselves then...
     
  6. Myriadfold

    Myriadfold 『Silkmaid』『Ishhara's Devotee』『Daoist』『WW Vet.』

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    i don't attach importance to life period or being forced to take sides
     
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    Vudoodude Well-Known Member

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    This is just the Trolley Problem, except you're making the number of people variable and the other person a cute child.
     
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    Scholar Occult Cauldron Bonk Maestro | Ascended

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    VSauce on YouTube created a video where they tested this sort of idea on innocent people (standard procedure was performed). Anybody that has the money, time, or interest should look on YouTube and YouTube red for their content.
    Video:
     
  9. Finalbeta

    Finalbeta Science Nerd

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    Hmm in general it should always be 1:1 but...
     
  10. Exitiumm

    Exitiumm Well-Known Member

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    Ooh~ Someone should stop this man before he cuts someone with that edge!
     
  11. Miserys_End

    Miserys_End 「Lv1 Pretend Person」I'm the preson i pretend to be

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    Nah, like others I wouldn't involve myself. Actively choosing the death is on your hands. Not choosing, the deaths are on the hands of the person whole pulled the trigger. I would rather my own death or that of the one enforcing the choice on me then then picking either innocent group.

    To be honest for all I know the group of innocent people are my family and the innocent girl is my daughter. *shrug* no matter your choice or lack there of, you lose.
     
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    Lazriser Well-Known Member

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    Ask Kiritsugu Emiya, he can answer to your dilemma.
     
  13. Ai chan

    Ai chan Queen of Yuri, Devourer of Traps, Thrusted Witch

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    That depends.

    If the child to sacrifice is my little brother with whom I'm having incestuous sex with, no way would I sacrifice him.

    If the group has people I'm having incestuous sex with, sorry, I will sacrifice him.

    If the groups has nobody I care about, let them both die. If forced to make a choice regardless, Ai-chan will choose to sacrifice the child.

    It's not anyone's choice but Ai-chan's choice. Ai-chan is the one who will be doing it. Therefore, Ai-chan will be the one who will be living with the memory of having killed either side.
     
  14. ORoger

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    I would give the button that kills the kid to the kid, and the button that kills the group to the group.

    Only I lie and tell the kid he has the button that kills the group, and to the group that they have the button that kills the kid.

    (whoever presses the button first will die, but as he was no longer innocent, he was trying to kill the other)
     
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    zhainan2157 『Villager No.2157』『Kawaii Connoisseur』

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    Did you get that from the Batman movie?
     
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    AMissingLinguist [Not Here][Blank Sect][Nuffian #N]

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    ORoger Well-Known Member

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    Just because it was Joker's idea it dosen't mean it wasn't a good.

    I am not psychopathic killer I promise.