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What would you do?... not an easy question.?

let’s say you were in charge of protecting a group of children in a village and one day a barbaric tribe declared they would kill all those not born into their tribe and they attacked your village, mercilessly slaughtering every man woman and child in their path but you found a safe place to hide that they wouldn’t think to look. So you hide yourself and all the children there and as everyone outside begins screaming as they are hacked up it causes one of the infants in your care to begin crying. You know that if the infant continues crying they will find and kill everyone, you now have the choice to either smother the infant and save the rest of the children; or risk the barbarians finding and killing everyone, which is the morally right choice and why?

Update:

the babies crying because of the screaming a pacifier won't work and i'm not the one to think of this question i'm merely passing it on.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    smother the kid. better to sacrifice the few and save the many than vice versa

  • .
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    cant i just put a pacifier in the poor baby's mouth? i dont want to harm the little fellar.

  • 10 years ago

    smother the kid. you don't want anymore deaths.

  • 10 years ago

    Why would you think of something so horrible?

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