okay in season 3 episode the game, makay asks shepard, teyla and ronan if there were 10 people standing on the train tracks and a train was coming and the only way to save them is to flip a switch sending the train down another track. the only problem is that theres a baby on the track you have to switch the train to. so the question is, would you kill the one baby to save 10 people? explain your answer.
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Originally posted by Jackie View Postwhy not have the ten people jump off the track? They're legs broke?
then go pick up the baby.
the train is traveling at 100 miles an hour, the 10 people and the baby are deaf,and blind. and theres no way to reach the people or the baby in time to save either of them. you have 2 seconds to flip the switch or not. what would you do?STARGATE ROCKS
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I hate to say it, but when you have no choice BUT to sacrifice lives, you have to look at numbers.
Killing 1 to save 10 nets you 9 lives saved.
Killing 10 to save 1 nets you 9 lives lost.
While it would be hard to decide the baby should die, in the end you have to save the most people you can.
BTW, wasn't this basically Teal'c's dilemma in Cor-Ai (sp?)? The choice was either for Teal'c to kill one random person in that group or Apophis would have them all killed. Teal'c chose to kill the oldest man because he would hold the group up from getting to safety, not to mention that he kept Apophis from killing them all indiscriminately.
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Originally posted by JacksonClone View PostI hate to say it, but when you have no choice BUT to sacrifice lives, you have to look at numbers.
Killing 1 to save 10 nets you 9 lives saved.
Killing 10 to save 1 nets you 9 lives lost.
While it would be hard to decide the baby should die, in the end you have to save the most people you can.
BTW, wasn't this basically Teal'c's dilemma in Cor-Ai (sp?)? The choice was either for Teal'c to kill one random person in that group or Apophis would have them all killed. Teal'c chose to kill the oldest man because he would hold the group up from getting to safety, not to mention that he kept Apophis from killing them all indiscriminately.
no, he chose the man with only 1 leg because he would take the longest to get to saftey.STARGATE ROCKS
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Originally posted by jenks View PostI'd save the 10 people and sacrifice the baby, unless the 10 people were 90 or something...
not saying either is wrong or right. but i choose the greater good as i see it.......... 10 hitlers and i'd be driving the train
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okay, so most people would sacrafice the 1 baby to save 10 lives. but, what if that 1 baby was your one and only baby and you are unable to have another baby. would that affect your decision at all? and dont answer, "if it were my baby i wouldnt have left it on the train tracks".STARGATE ROCKS
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Originally posted by stargater1990 View Postokay, so most people would sacrafice the 1 baby to save 10 lives. but, what if that 1 baby was your one and only baby and you are unable to have another baby. would that affect your decision at all? and dont answer, "if it were my baby i wouldnt have left it on the train tracks".
what would you do stargater1990 ten people or one baby ? Huh ? and you have to personally explain to each persons' family why you made the decision by the wayLast edited by Artifysial; 05 September 2008, 06:29 PM.sigpic
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Originally posted by stargater1990 View Postokay, so most people would sacrafice the 1 baby to save 10 lives. but, what if that 1 baby was your one and only baby and you are unable to have another baby. would that affect your decision at all? and dont answer, "if it were my baby i wouldnt have left it on the train tracks".
I don't know how long it would take but I would eventually come to the same decision. Even if it was my only child, they die a hero's death, and I couldn't live with myself if I knew that because of me 10 people died.
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