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Old June 12th 09, 06:35 PM posted to alt.philosophy.debate,misc.kids,rec.sport.football.college
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Default Moral Dilemma

In rec.sport.football.college Anthony Summers sanoi, hitaasti kuin hämähäkki:
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?


I throw George W Bush down to trigger the plate, then me and the kid
fly away safely in a helicopter.

rich
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