For me, it'd largely depend on the city. Overall though, I would. It'd be a justifiable, noble cause to do so. I can think of ten people the world would be better off without in a matter of seconds. If you're allowed to just go to some prison and shoot a bunch of rapists, I would no matter what city it was.
not this shit again...
as stated before there would be enough people who would spend there lives for saving others
Originally Posted by Boubouille
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Option 1: Ten people die.
Option 2: potentially millions of people die instantly, (even if you evacuate, the number of people stuck in traffic jams, and people unable to move on their own is orders of magnitude higher than ten.)
Many more people across the country are irradiated causing cancer and birth defects in their children.
A large highly populated area of economic, political and social importance becomes uninhabitable for the forseeable future.
The only moral dilemma here is whether to include yourself in the ten people being killed.
10 to save millions (first the bomb, then county retaliates, possibly more bombs).
I would.
*Going down the bombshelter,Looks slightly annoyed at this inconveniance. Continues playing Total war on laptop...*
And im not kidding! Why would anyone care about 10 people or even millions of people they don't know?
Lets put it this way, My cats life is worth more than 1billion people to ME,i would most likely kill everything on this planet if it was about my cats survival or other family members! But killing 10 strangers i dont care about inorder to save millions of strangers i dont care about isn't worth it! Im still going to jail and wasting my life.
Abit cold but realistic,Not many people will sacrifice their life for the gain of many.
To those of you who would <3 you are true heroes and a valued resource in our society
Last edited by mmoc098be2d235; 2012-01-09 at 11:53 AM.
Well, if you can count me as innocent. you only would need 9 more.. lol
grats, you just let 19.5 MILLION people die (I took NY population from wikipedia) because you refused to kill 10. For every one person you refused to sacrifice you killed one MILLION and 950 THOUSANDS others.
I bet those 19.5 MILLION dead people are really happy of your morals.
And a question: sacrifice 10 ppl to save nearly 20M or refuse to sacrifice and let them die anyway when nuke explodes in THEIR city?
It's a town where everybody knows everybody and every rumor is heard (my family not included cause we don't give a shit about those who live here). But yeah, don't think they will listen / believe
Hard choice tbh... I mean, like, OH COME ON EVERYBODY WOULD KILL THE BIEBER FANS! O.o Dump them all in one town, drop the nuke there and you will be seen as god!
It's just a matter of opinion's.
The real question here is how would you live with yourself knowing that you killed millions of people, if you chose not to kill the 10?
Life isn't about sticking to a strict moral code and taking the moral high ground all the time. Life is about adapting and surviving. If you're chosen to make a decision like this, one can only hope that you would do what's best for the greater good.
We can even make this scenario even more difficult by proposing that you kill 10 of the most innovative people at the forefront of science and medicine, or 1 million children get taken to an island, which then gets nuked.
Among those 1 million childeren could easily be 10 people who grown up to be leaders in the scientific/medical community. The idea that some of you just wouldn't take any action is appalling.
Circumstantially, you'd be harming millions by not harming 10. Saying 'harm no one' doesn't work.primum non nocere
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Since a lot of people in this thread are saying their answer depends on what city would be bombed, I want to ask: what city/cities with over one million inhabitants would you sacrifice for 10 random lives?
Lets put it into perspective! You send a few buck down to Africa every year to save all the poor people, right? Knowing that most of it goes to supporting Guerilla troops ,who then systematicly rape,murder and abuse those men,women and children! There you have your moral dilemma, now just apply it to this problem. How do you act towards that?
My actions will probably only worsen then situation so i'll lay flat on my back pretending nothing is happening!
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Id do it without remorse, since id pick the 10ppl i hate the most :> (For various private reasons)
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Why not just evacuate the whole city?