https://youtube/watch?v=PDVvYzEdp_s Most people ; wont kill the person for their organs, wont kill baby Hitler. They hit a bit of a moral wall. The utilitarian person or the psychopath. Would in both instances. From an immediate logic point of view it makes the most sense. I dont follow either train of thought. The organ donor situation would create a very awful presidence which makes life disposable at the whim of whoever wills it. Just for the greater good. While it may seem to be doing a greater good for those five you saved it completely destroys the concept of consent. That is a greater moral harm in society than could be counterbalanced by saving just about any number of lives, and is one of the real failings of politicians who make these decisions. As well as federal judges. The degradation of our rights and privacy and ability to consent within our own nations has been slowly degraded simply because every time a politician makes this kind of utilitarian hard choice they really are tearing down consent and the value of all human life. As for baby Hitler. You simply have no idea of the ramifications this act would have to history. For starters while you may save all the victims of the Holocaust and the war itself you would have murdered all the unique people who would have been born in this timeline. Secondly the Nazi movement was actually independent of Hitler and there is no proof that the second World War and the Holocaust wouldnt have happened anyway, and in fact in your new timeline the Nazis might even have won. Then there are a few even bigger problems. I believe that WWII and being shown just how awful we are as human beings were instrumental in the Human Rights movement as we know it. It also led to the dropping of the first atomic bombs on cities which showed us first hand how horrifying they were; without that event their destruction would have been a lot more abstract. If we didnt have WWII we likely would have had WWIII so to speak long ago and it would have been a hell of a lot worse.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:16:49 +0000
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