Thread: Maemo Morality
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Originally Posted by Dak View Post
What I see of interest here is the way many people are conditioned to follow the life-evaluating calculus of "more = better". Why is it better to save 5 rather than 1? Why isn't it just as immoral to condemn 1 to death as it is 5? How do you 'value' human life, after all?
There has to be a tipping point: 5-to-1, 10-to-1, 1000-to-1, etc.

My tipping point for the lever? ~100-to-1 lives saved.
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