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1. Rebel troops are murdering everyone in sight. Twenty civilians are hiding under the floor. A child begins to make noises. The only way to stop the noise is to kill the child.
I would knock the child unconcious.
2. Child is running toward soldiers with a grenade taped to his hands.
I would scream that the soldiers better run faster..
3. Child has a highly infectious disease, Incurable, lethal disease, on a boat with other children at Sea, rescue is days away.
I would set it apart from the others.
4. Child soldier is holding a gun on another child. You could snipe the gun holder in the head from 100 yards away.
I would not shoot.
Unless it is my mission, I must be there with a sniperrifle for a reason.
5. Adolph Hitler is in your scope rifle. You know this afternoon he will give the order for the Holocaust. The SS has just spotted you and are turning to shoot you, you have moments. Hitler picks up a child, the child blocks your view, but your powerful rifle could shoot through the child, killing Hitler, and you could get away.
Again, I am scoping there for a reason, most likely to kill Hitler. So I would pull the trigger.
5b. Adolph is in a school building with 500 children, your only chance, press the detonator and kill them all or let him live, last chance.
This one says nothing of the information I will hold at that time. If it would be the same information as I have now, boooom!
Unless it happens short before he originally dies.
6a. Six children are about to die. The only way to discover the cure is to kill one and look inside his brain / heart, etc. Guarantee of success for the other five is 100%. Certainly they will otherwise die is 100% / 6b. 90%
6a. I hope I will be able to pull the trigger, I think I won't.
6b. Nope.
6c. Which would you rather a doctor in another country chose for your 6 children?
My Children? In that case I would need a lot more doctors than one before they can start killing my flock!
6d. What if you only found out about it after the fact, and the news of the decision of the doctor is in an envelope on your desk. Would you want to open the letter and find that all 6 of your children were left to die, or that the doctor murdered one child and saved 5?
What's done is done.
6e. same as 6d, but now you're the doctor, the children are yours, and you have to make the decision in four hours. This is, in effect, 6a again.
Than my answer is the same one as 6a.
7. Child soldier abused, now marching with the enemy in the distance, ready to kill the good guys.
I am one of the good guys, so I rather kill him then get killed.
8. An ignorant child is holding at gun and will shoot the leg (not fatally) of another child. You can only stop the loss of the leg by killing the gun holder.
leg vs life?
Please include whether or not religion plays a role in your answers, and thanks to those who answer.
I do not have a religion.
I do not believe in the soul. After you die, it's over. Therefor I value the life of a child just as hard as the life of a 85 year old guy. Dead is dead. Children however, generally leave more loved ones behind.
So when a child dies it is a horrible thing, but not for the child. For the parents and all! It is certainly not cool if the parents are sad, but it is also not cool to not kill hitler. I think that killing Hitler generally makes the world a lot happier than that it would make the world sad when that child gets killed.
On the other hand, we are dealing with timeframes here. I do not think that over a large amount of time this world would be happier with either Hitler alive or killed. Or even if he would have been victorious. I already notice this in my own time, let alone a thousands years from now. So the longer you wait to go back in time to kill somebody, the less usefull it will be for your own time. But you still have to kill a man..
I would knock the child unconcious.
2. Child is running toward soldiers with a grenade taped to his hands.
I would scream that the soldiers better run faster..
3. Child has a highly infectious disease, Incurable, lethal disease, on a boat with other children at Sea, rescue is days away.
I would set it apart from the others.
4. Child soldier is holding a gun on another child. You could snipe the gun holder in the head from 100 yards away.
I would not shoot.
Unless it is my mission, I must be there with a sniperrifle for a reason.
5. Adolph Hitler is in your scope rifle. You know this afternoon he will give the order for the Holocaust. The SS has just spotted you and are turning to shoot you, you have moments. Hitler picks up a child, the child blocks your view, but your powerful rifle could shoot through the child, killing Hitler, and you could get away.
Again, I am scoping there for a reason, most likely to kill Hitler. So I would pull the trigger.
5b. Adolph is in a school building with 500 children, your only chance, press the detonator and kill them all or let him live, last chance.
This one says nothing of the information I will hold at that time. If it would be the same information as I have now, boooom!
Unless it happens short before he originally dies.
6a. Six children are about to die. The only way to discover the cure is to kill one and look inside his brain / heart, etc. Guarantee of success for the other five is 100%. Certainly they will otherwise die is 100% / 6b. 90%
6a. I hope I will be able to pull the trigger, I think I won't.
6b. Nope.
6c. Which would you rather a doctor in another country chose for your 6 children?
My Children? In that case I would need a lot more doctors than one before they can start killing my flock!
6d. What if you only found out about it after the fact, and the news of the decision of the doctor is in an envelope on your desk. Would you want to open the letter and find that all 6 of your children were left to die, or that the doctor murdered one child and saved 5?
What's done is done.
6e. same as 6d, but now you're the doctor, the children are yours, and you have to make the decision in four hours. This is, in effect, 6a again.
Than my answer is the same one as 6a.
7. Child soldier abused, now marching with the enemy in the distance, ready to kill the good guys.
I am one of the good guys, so I rather kill him then get killed.
8. An ignorant child is holding at gun and will shoot the leg (not fatally) of another child. You can only stop the loss of the leg by killing the gun holder.
leg vs life?
Please include whether or not religion plays a role in your answers, and thanks to those who answer.
I do not have a religion.
I do not believe in the soul. After you die, it's over. Therefor I value the life of a child just as hard as the life of a 85 year old guy. Dead is dead. Children however, generally leave more loved ones behind.
So when a child dies it is a horrible thing, but not for the child. For the parents and all! It is certainly not cool if the parents are sad, but it is also not cool to not kill hitler. I think that killing Hitler generally makes the world a lot happier than that it would make the world sad when that child gets killed.
On the other hand, we are dealing with timeframes here. I do not think that over a large amount of time this world would be happier with either Hitler alive or killed. Or even if he would have been victorious. I already notice this in my own time, let alone a thousands years from now. So the longer you wait to go back in time to kill somebody, the less usefull it will be for your own time. But you still have to kill a man..
