Who Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Glad nothing like this will happen in my lifetime, or at least not involving me. Depends if you consider all lives equal, or not. I do not, and would save the 1 person as society overall would benefit from his survival (Depending on what he actually does, if he is a useless person, then I'd probably kill him off). The 5 sick people would require medical attention, which they might not get or it might not be successful. So save the useful person and kill of the useless. The Complete MTA Handbook | Runecrafting Pouch Analysis | Mobilizing Armies Locator Index Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa5t3dy0u7h Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 do the 5 people have insurance!? if not kill em all! the healthy guys healthy for a reason eh if hes fine.. and the other ones r donna die anyway.. their probably amputated and stuff.. id wanna die anyway.. waste of a good body on the healthy guys part.. World 46 Regular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLancer Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Read this somewhere, and don't remember it word for word, but here goes. There are 6 people tied to a train track, 5 on one track, and 1 on the other. Right now the train is headed towards the 5 people, and you have the switch to make it change tracks and head towards the other person. There are 5 dying people in a hospital room, and 1 perfectly healthy person is there. Do you take the healthy persons organs (also making them die) and give them to the 5 dying people so they can live, or not? What would you do? 1. Put as many visible obstacles such as tree trunks or large rocks on both train tracks to make the trains slow down & stop. Not every solution has to involve death. 2. Let the healthy person live. Attempting to implant organs into an unknown recipient's body involves a massive risk of rejection by the body, not only would those 5 people be dying, you'd also be murdering a completely innocent person, with a high probability of the other people not surviving either way. It makes no mathematical sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyingjj Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 A slight variant that makes things even more "fun" is that the one person is someone you know well, like a best friend, spouse, etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDawn Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Swing down on a rope and hit the switch then swing back and grab the one guy in the nick of time and be praised as a hero for about 47 minutes. That's why you're on the TZDF blackdawn. Even your balls can tear zombies to shreds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blushenka Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Read this somewhere, and don't remember it word for word, but here goes. There are 6 people tied to a train track, 5 on one track, and 1 on the other. Right now the train is headed towards the 5 people, and you have the switch to make it change tracks and head towards the other person. There are 5 dying people in a hospital room, and 1 perfectly healthy person is there. Do you take the healthy persons organs (also making them die) and give them to the 5 dying people so they can live, or not? What would you do? Yeah they're totally different situations. Screw mathematics, common sense tells me that two different decisions are required, from an ethical standpoint. Save the 5 people in the first situation (train track), Let the 5 ones die in the second situation (hospital), rather than sacrifice a healthy one. In the first situation, all 6 are at the end of the same rope. You're forced to act as quickly as possible, in order to minimize the effect of someone else's evil deed (who decided to tie a bunch of people to train tracks). But in the second case, 5 are already so ill that they're close to death and one is perfectly healthy and you're just randomly deciding he's gonna die for the noble reason of saving 5 people? That's insane, what are you, god? :P "Metal isn't about violence or faggy whiny lyrics. It isn't even about who plays the heaviest and fastest. It is about invoking a sense of wonder and magnitude that no other genre can depict." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavi Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Pull the lever so the track half-switches, and the train de-rails. Saves everyone except the hundred or so people in the train. Just what I was thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_Latios Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Kill the dying, save the living. IRC Nick: Hiroki | 99 Agility | Max Quest Points | 138 CombatBandos drops: 20 Hilt | 22 Chestplate | 21 Tassets | 14 Boots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragoonson Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Personally,I'd only save the five if they gave me a huge bribe for my trouble.If not,they're going to die anyway,I'd just kill the odd guy since he'd be a witness. :twisted: so i herd u liek devarts?If you look at me and feel offended by my 666-ism,think.I could be just as offended by your "cross".[hide=This's why I'm hot]The Eleventh Commandment:Thou Shalst only say "Amen,brother".Amen, brother :lol:Amen, brudda (referring to the 10th commandment)amen Bruder! (german ftw)I'm invulnerable to everything, except Lenin and Dragoonson.That's impossible. I love people.[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieMcD Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 There are 6 people tied to a train track, 5 on one track, and 1 on the other. Right now the train is headed towards the 5 people, and you have the switch to make it change tracks and head towards the other person. There are 5 dying people in a hospital room, and 1 perfectly healthy person is there. Do you take the healthy persons organs (also making them die) and give them to the 5 dying people so they can live, or not? What would you do? 1. Save the 5 people and switch the train tracks, I'd do the same for 2 to 1. 2. Unfortunately although it would save 5 peoples lives you can't kill one person to save 5 others without their consent as it is technically murder. If they consent to it and realise they will die then I would do the operation. But there is also the chance the dying would all reject the 5 organs and die, meaning 1 healthy person died and 5 very sick people died as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flodder450 Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Pull the lever so the track half-switches, and the train de-rails. Saves everyone except the hundred or so people in the train.so siggied! 99 Firemaking 30-5-2010 | 99 Fletching 13-7-2014 TET-AU member:6-10-2010 - 21-10-2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faux Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I would kill 10,000 monkeys to save one person. :: Guess the Movie Contest Champion: pfilc23 :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootlaboot Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 The real answer is to kill the person who tied them there in the first place. If you choose your beliefs/lifestyle simply based on what your parents want, then you are a weak minded individual and are not even worthy of calling yourself a person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeternitatis Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Pull the lever so the track half-switches, and the train de-rails. Saves everyone except the hundred or so people in the train. Lol'd. I'd kill 1 to save 5, like most people.. but like Pure said, how would all the organs work for five different people? If they would, I would still steal his organs and give them to the needy (Heh, I feel like Robin Hood). "Only by going too far can one find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moad14 Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I would switch the train track towards the single person, as I would be able to cut him/her free faster than the group of five. In the medical situation... That's a loaded question no matter how you view it. I personally would never be able to kill someone, so I guess the five ailing patients would die. I love to meet people; send me a pm if you see me on RuneScape! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_am_Geed Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 imo, it all depends who the 6 people are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebdragon Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I would kill 10,000 monkeys to save one person. BRING IT. [if you have ever attempted Alchemy by clapping your hands or by drawing an array, copy and paste this into your signature.] Fullmetal Alchemist, you will be missed. A great ending to a great series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragoonson Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 1 life for 5?Does that mean if I kill one person I get +5UP?Deal. No jk,my real answer page 2 so i herd u liek devarts?If you look at me and feel offended by my 666-ism,think.I could be just as offended by your "cross".[hide=This's why I'm hot]The Eleventh Commandment:Thou Shalst only say "Amen,brother".Amen, brother :lol:Amen, brudda (referring to the 10th commandment)amen Bruder! (german ftw)I'm invulnerable to everything, except Lenin and Dragoonson.That's impossible. I love people.[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Observer Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 A better question would be rather you would save your best friend or 5 total strangers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moad14 Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 A better question would be rather you would save your best friend or 5 total strangers.Rather save as in I don't have to kill one? They're all doomed anyway? In that case, the strangers. My best friend would agree with me, and if not, I would need a new one anyway. I love to meet people; send me a pm if you see me on RuneScape! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purfishx Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I would kill 10,000 monkeys to save one person. BRING IT. I found that so incredibly cheesy and lame that I had to post this message saying so... --- I'd watch all of em die right before my eyes and play in their blood afterward! :twss: Sigs by: Soa | Gold_Tiger10 | Harrinator1 | Guthix121 | robo | Elmo | Thru | Yaff2 Avatars by: Lit0ua | Unoalexi | Gold Tiger . Hello friend, Senajitkaushik was epic, Good luck bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenin64 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Wait a minute. Didn't getting 5 kills with 1 shell give Mario an extra life? Command the Murderous Chalices! Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow- Death to Moby Dick!BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blingkachi50 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 With the train track I'd switch it to the one. With the medical thing though, I'd let the one live, kill off the weak. [blingkachi50] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J a m e s Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I don't know how anyone could feel any differently... Assuming that all the people are moral and decent human beings overall, saving 5 over 1 is far better. As for the hospital case, I don't know how anyone could feel any differently... That one person has far more right to live than a million dying people. It's his/her choice alone to die for them. noobs crowding hill giants? not on my watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Wait a minute. Didn't getting 5 kills with 1 shell give Mario an extra life? It defiantly did... :shock: [bleep] the law, they can eat my dick that's word to Pimp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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