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Originally posted by the illuminator
I am looking for a person to tell me Murder is ok. that if i came up to them and murdered their parents right in front of them that they would be ok with that.
I simply dont get it. there is clearly a right and wrong in our world. not just our world view but EVER world view.
Good Day.
Originally posted by the illuminator
I am looking for a person to tell me Murder is ok. that if i came up to them and murdered their parents right in front of them that they would be ok with that.
I simply dont get it. there is clearly a right and wrong in our world. not just our world view but EVER world view.
Good Day.
PART ONE: THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER
If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? Thats the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning. After the majority of students votes for killing the one person in order to save the lives of five others, Sandel presents three similar moral conundrums—each one artfully designed to make the decision more difficult. As students stand up to defend their conflicting choices, it becomes clear that the assumptions behind our moral reasoning are often contradictory, and the question of what is right and what is wrong is not always black and white.
PART TWO: THE CASE FOR CANNIBALISM
Sandel introduces the principles of utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, with a famous nineteenth century legal case involving a shipwrecked crew of four. After nineteen days lost at sea, the captain decides to kill the weakest amongst them, the young cabin boy, so that the rest can feed on his blood and body to survive. The case sets up a classroom debate about the moral validity of utilitarianism—and its doctrine that the right thing to do is whatever produces "the greatest good for the greatest number."
Originally posted by the illuminator
I am looking for a person to tell me Murder is ok.
Originally posted by the illuminator
then you would need to ask the murderer if he would think killing his family or something he cares about is ok