Is it morally permissible to kill one innocent person to save the lives of more innocent people?
This is the current topic in Lincoln-Douglas debate (a type of competitive debate) topic, or more correctly it is the resolution- Resolved: It is morally permissible to kill one innocent person to save the lives of more innocent people.
Anyways, I thought this was a very interesting philosophical argument and wanted to see what other gamers think.
We use logic to debate. Logic is learned, it comes from what we see in reality, therefore we can use it to argue if something is of reality or not. But again when going to questions not based on reality, err...
Oh and saying that the statement is false because it verifies itself is false because it doesn't. The statement is built on by logic, which is based on reality, which is based on another reality. (Complex things being made of simpler things and simple things being built of simpler things)
I suppose the way to solve most of the problem is to say that an unknown reality offers only a range of possibilites. A theory must show itself to be in the circumstances of what this reality provides.
I think that it is morally permisible. As a pilot i was questioned about this whilst i was undertaking jet training ie how would you feel about killing people etc. For me its a matter of lives olst against lives saved. If u kill 1 to save a thousand(not to sound like that film wanted btw!) that is ok. However i do belive that me killing say 50 taliban to save a unit of 16 uk/us soldiers is permissable but thats just me. But to answer the original question yes it is permisible.
This is a confusing topic. I think while it is OK. to save the five people through transplant only if the one person agrees, because it is taking away the free will of one man to make up for the bad luck (assuming the other people did just have bad luck, and did not hurt themselves through dregs, depression, stupidity, etc.) of another five. The free will is worth more. However if the a man shot purpously hit Jones and 3 other men with a bus (1st degree murder) and the bus driver was sentenced death, and he also had the same blodod type as jones, could he be stripped of a complete burial to save the five people. I say yes. Now with free will vs. bad luck taken out of the equation, (and also the possibilities of a complication) you should sacrifice the one man to save five.
