old.Tohtori
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The title is a bit misleading, as death rarely is "ok" in the mind of regular folk(assuming regular folk are regular folk, yei for meta), but on to the point;
How many deaths would be ok, to ensure the survival of the human race?
Is a million people killed ok, to save the 6 billion?
How about, as Eddie Murphy would say, half?
Would you even go as far as say that it's ok to kill 99.9% of humanity, to ensure that the rest have a possibility to keep the race going?
That's the basis of it really, but when you dwelve into it, it becomes a bit more morally blurry. Moblurry. Would it be ok to kill off starving nations, to remove the need for help and as such, ensure better conditions for thriving countries?
Think you get the point there and can indeed add your own scenarios, including that of kill the poor, save the rich, which many future world sci-fi base themselves on, or indeed could go the other way and ask if killing 5 people is ok to save just one.
I personally think that any amount is ok in the interet of human survival, but it conflicts rather badly with the bawic thought that everyone deserves a chance at life and only their own actions can deny it. From a completely calculative POV, i would be in support of the 99.9% category.
This is ofcourse an opinion based conversation and as such will most likely cause a lot of flaming and pulling of hair, but eventually everyone is right in their own opinion
How many deaths would be ok, to ensure the survival of the human race?
Is a million people killed ok, to save the 6 billion?
How about, as Eddie Murphy would say, half?
Would you even go as far as say that it's ok to kill 99.9% of humanity, to ensure that the rest have a possibility to keep the race going?
That's the basis of it really, but when you dwelve into it, it becomes a bit more morally blurry. Moblurry. Would it be ok to kill off starving nations, to remove the need for help and as such, ensure better conditions for thriving countries?
Think you get the point there and can indeed add your own scenarios, including that of kill the poor, save the rich, which many future world sci-fi base themselves on, or indeed could go the other way and ask if killing 5 people is ok to save just one.
I personally think that any amount is ok in the interet of human survival, but it conflicts rather badly with the bawic thought that everyone deserves a chance at life and only their own actions can deny it. From a completely calculative POV, i would be in support of the 99.9% category.
This is ofcourse an opinion based conversation and as such will most likely cause a lot of flaming and pulling of hair, but eventually everyone is right in their own opinion