Thread: Moral Dilemma
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Old June 13th 09, 04:04 AM posted to alt.philosophy.debate,misc.kids,rec.sport.football.college
James Schrumpf
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Default Moral Dilemma

Quiet, Anthony Summers -- I'm transmitting rage.

You are standing on top of a platform from which you cannot get down.
You are dressed in a set of pajamas and no shoes. On the platform with
you is a 6-month old child.

Across from you is a building which has been packed with explosives by
terrorists who are now dead. There are 200 people in the building and
the doors are welded shut.

Eight stories directly below you is a pressure plate the size of a motor
home which will disarm the explosives. The authorities cannot reach the
plate in time. The explosives will destroy the building in 30 seconds,
killing all 200 people inside, if you do not act.

What do you do?



Those people are gonna die, 'cause I'm not gonna jump down there and I'm not
gonna throw the kid either.

Life sucks sometimes.

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