The discomfort for me was that I realized I might very well make that choice. Saving my son at the cost of destroying the world (and I'm speaking only of its human inhabitants) is not itself a livable scenario. Of course, I'd be dead, too, by my own hand, but 6 billion wouldn't be. That, to me, seems the moral choice and it's not just about the numbers. It's about the human endeavor having its own value, similar to how atomicZ framed the evaluation.
How do you view the interaction between that moral reasoning and the morality of evolution which would originate at least in the saving of one's own progeny?
(See why I felt sick?) >:-)
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