Fall Caesar
Registered Member
Taken from Michael Sandel's Harvard class called Justice: (See Video Here)
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?
In general, is it permissible to harm a smaller number of innocent people to prevent greater harm to a larger number of people?
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?
In general, is it permissible to harm a smaller number of innocent people to prevent greater harm to a larger number of people?