01-26-2010, 05:38 PM
(01-26-2010, 12:01 PM)Lavazza Wrote: If you *really* want a hairy hypothetical to mull over, consider one that my (slightly dark mooded) friend posed to me. Were you given the choice of seeing one of your loved ones killed, or one hundred people you don't know killed, what would you do? When I heard that question initially I rebuked it, claiming that it was a false choice given that it would almost never happen. But apparently I am wrong about that, he cited some African genocide or other where, reportedly, similar things had happened. I still don't know quite what to say about that one.
were such a situation ever to occur i think any answer would always depend on the details - particularly that since from a LOO perspective death is nothing to fear
on an sto path one wouldn't think twice about sacrificing oneself for 100 strangers, but would someone on the sto path be able to chose to sacrafice another individual for 100 people? isn't that an infringement of your loved ones' free will, unless they made that choice themselves?