Would you kill to save a life?

[InMyLifetime-BaconChops]

The lying thread got me thinking.

Would you kill a completely innocent person, to save a completely innocent person?

I know some that would say yes, and some that would say no...

 

[Manchester_City_Blue]

Hard to say. Kill someone else to save someone important to me though? Yes.

 

[pee dubya]

You're not actually saving a life in this situation, you're just killing the other innocent person instead.

 

[Carstairs]

Define "completely innocent"

Why would I have to kill them?

 

[Lavinda Past]

Circumstances...

I wouldn't ever want to, but can't possibly say that I wouldn't if the need arose.

I'd kill anyone to save my wife and kids. Even myself.

 

[Pigeonho]

OP doesn't make any sense. Not sure if it's supposed to be that way.

I would kill an innocent person if it meant saving one of my own, if that's what he means? If a loony captured my daughter and a stranger and told me the only way i'd get her back would be to kill the stranger, i'd do it.

 

[roaminblue]

Utilitarianism says you should, that the proper course of ethics suggests the maximization of utility.

The hypothetical scenario to counter was the surgeons problem:

A Dr has two sets of patients, five dying of a disease and one with, say a sprained wrist. The man with the sprained wrist has a certain immunity that would save the lives of the five dying. Should you kill the man, who is for all intents and purposes, perfectly fine in order to save the lives of the other five?

 

[InMyLifetime-BaconChops]

It's a hypothetical situation. 2 people standing in front of you, both done nothing wrong. You have to kill 1, or the other would die. Would you?

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

With questions like this I always find myself asking - what would Jesus do?

 

[TCIB]

I'd shoot myself.