03-08-2022, 02:34:55 AM
Through some improbable sequence of events that shall remain unspecified, you are presented with a grim dilemma — you must either kill a kind and harmless person or kill their beloved pet dog. Do you A. kill the dog, judging the value of its life to be less than that of a human, or B. kill the human, judging their premature end to be a lesser pain compared to that which they would experience upon finding their dear dog dead?
CORRECT ANSWER: C. Kill both of them, both to spare the human from the pain of having their dog dead, and to spare the dog from the pain of having their human dead. The moral of the story is: dogs have feelings too, and if you put your thumb on the utilitarian scales you can rationalize away any atrocity provided that you apply the appropriate logic.
CORRECT ANSWER: C. Kill both of them, both to spare the human from the pain of having their dog dead, and to spare the dog from the pain of having their human dead. The moral of the story is: dogs have feelings too, and if you put your thumb on the utilitarian scales you can rationalize away any atrocity provided that you apply the appropriate logic.
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?