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Dilemma, What would you do and why? 10 PTS?
You are stranded with thirty people on a lifeboat that is intended to hold only seven. No one can paddle this heavy boat and it is definitely going to sink, drowning everyone inside it. It occurs to you that you can save some of the people in the lifeboat by throwing all but the strongest rowers overboard. Do you think it would be morally permissible to save some people by throwing others overboard, especially seeing that, otherwise, everyone, including those thrown overboard, would have drowned anyway?
3 Answers
- JorgeLv 65 years ago
Everybody gets a turn in the water. Since nobody could tread water 24 hours a day and it would be wrong to let some people stay in the raft and others stay in the water, the only fair way is for 7 people to stay in the raft at a time. The rest will hold onto the sides of the raft and help propel the raft with their feet. Every 6 hours, you change out the people in the raft.
- ?Lv 75 years ago
First off you need to realize the world is populated by either Sheep or Wolfs, These are two different mind sets, Sheep are a flock mentality whereas Wolfs are a pack mentality, Sheep are reliant on the dogs and sheppards taking care of them, Wolfs rely on the alpha wolf to take care of them, So in this case being a wolf, I protect my pack, and dispose of the sheep,
