Questions of Ethics

dreadgeek · 07-07-2011, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by tapu

DREADGEEK: "the life of my son, compared to the life of the other 6 billion of y'all, is more important to me."

I know exactly what you mean, but I did have an uncomfortable feeling when I read that: Would I not sacrifice my son to save the world?

Guess that doesn't really bear on the question at hand.... But I'm back to throwing poor little Asa under the train! >:-\

It was uncomfortable for me to type it! It's one of those things that I know about myself that I might wish were otherwise but it's not.

As an aside, when my son was in his mid-teens I found myself going fully Cosby on him and saying "I brought you into this world, I'll take you out, make another one look just like you and in 15 years no one will know the difference".

Cheers
Aj

tapu · 07-07-2011, 11:54 AM

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?) >:-)

07-07-2011, 11:54 AM	#2
tapu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Understated butch. Preferred Pronoun?: I Relationship Status: Party of One Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Maine Posts: 1,654 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 3,115 Times in 1,103 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	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?) >:-) __________________ Really? That's not funny to you?