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Re: Are we doing the right thing?
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Date: 
Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:20:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes

If you, your children and the bus driver are trapped under an avalanche and
your children are starving, do you kill and serve the driver to avoid watching
your children die of starvation?  In answering this hypothetical, I do.
Morality is a fanciful phantom when your life is on the line.

  Some would assert that morality is only realized when one's life is on the
line.  Anyone can be moral while sitting comfortably in an air conditioned
apartment; ie, when nothing's at stake.

     Dave!



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  Re: Are we doing the right thing?
 
(...) disposal (...) OK. (...) But I believe that principles are inconsistent at their heart. (...) If you, your children and the bus driver are trapped under an avalanche and your children are starving, do you kill and serve the driver to avoid (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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