Thread: Maemo Morality
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#149
Originally Posted by Dak View Post
By what authority do you make this choice? What cosmic gift of perspective grants you the vision to determine the relative value of unknown lives?
I already addressed that in my first post: No cosmic power of any kind beyond the mathematical numbers that 5 > 1. Saving 4 > losing 1.

In my opinion, by refusing to make a choice, or by walking you are making that choice - and you still share part of the responsibility of the outcome.

I'm not here to say anyone should be prosecuted for making either decision. I don't think either decision is fundamentally wrong. I just know that I would not live with myself or be able to look my children in the eye having known that I "let", "allowed", "chose", or any other word you choose to use - 5 people die; when it was within my power to make that 5, 1.

With power comes responsibility: By the unlucky nature of you being at that spot at that time the power is granted to you to change the scenario, whether you want it or not. How you wield, or don't wield, that power is entirely up to you. But it's on you to live with that choice, as that is what it was.
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