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Is it right or wrong for you to kill one person to save 50??

save the lives of ten people at the cost of one person's life ?

kill a complete stranger to save a loved one ?

kill a person for money ?

flip a switch that will cause an out of control train to change tracks and kill one person if it means saving five people ?

 

right You can't beat those odds.

right i deamed them worthy

wrong one inteligent is worth 50 retarded

right the amount of lives kept are what's important

right What leads to the common good is more important than one person. People die, it is a fact of existence. Why allow fifty people to die, when you can save them by sacrificing one?

right are you kidding? I'd kill 50 people to save one person.

right in the correct context: imminent threat of those in your charge

right Well, if all we know about them is that they are people, we could only argue in numbers.

right The greatest good for the greatest number.

right a greater good is achieved overall.

wrong it´s wrong kill people

right Assuming I have no personal connections to any people involved, if I killed one person to save 50, that's a 50:51 life ratio, with letting the one live and the other 50 die, its a 1:51 ratio.

right yeah

wrong You don't kill the few to save the many, unless the many are really worth it. because the few may be worth a lot more, it depends on what kind of people they are. Numbers alone don't matter

right maths dude,

wrong murder of another human is always wrong.

right one life is not more precious than 50

right (depends on the situation), but the value of 50 lives is probably more important than one.

right The greatest good for the greatest number. Unless killing that one inadvertantly kills more than 50 others

right vigilante justice is the best justice

right It's fun to kill

wrong The only person whose life I am responsible for is my own. I cannot take killing into my own hands.

wrong we need fewer retards on earth.

right being responsible for one death is less of a moral dilemma than being responsible for fifty deaths.

right 50>1

right Even though killing a person is wrong, it would be even more wrong to kill fifty persons. Responsibility > Right Ideals

right you end up 49 people better off

right fifty may do what one may not

right the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few

wrong There is always an other way.

wrong that one person may have more potential to advance society than the other 50.

wrong killing is always false

right 50 lives are simply mathematically more important than one.

right a single person may make a difference, but theres a greater chance of 50 making a difference

right less effect on the lives of others

right who cares

 

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