Thread: Questions on Morality... What's your take?

Originally Posted by Abra

1. Killing another conscious being is the most serious crime I think is possible for a single person (because a single person cannot retrograde civilization to the bronze age, no matter how convincing that last Die Hard movie looked).
2. This is an absurd scenario. Murder to save someone else from having to murder? Why not prevent the would-be murderer from murdering?
3. In what situation would I have to murder to save many? I can only think of murdering a person for national defense, which is perfectly acceptable and logical to me.

If you think an answer to a question would be silly in any way (bearing in mind that these are hypothetical situations) this is what you should do...

"Edit: The above examples were all for specific things (e.g. murder, lying, etc) and as I've gotten mostly non-specific values/acts I've decided to add a list of examples of what to do if the act that offends your morality the most is non-specific. Here are the list of questions for that situation:

1. Same as before.

2. Would you do something that is in your eyes extremely immoral to save someone else from something that is as harmful as your act is immoral?

3. Would you do the same immoral act as in question 2 for utilitarian reasons (e.g. would you do that same act to save a group of people from harm)?

I hope that clears things up."

Btw, Abra, the bold was for people to see it, as I can't edit my first post for some reason and but it in there