Which would you chose?

[Anonymouse]

Interesting, how we become greedy in a sense. Though yes i understand that "who are those people to me" is what comes to mind, i know you love your son, and another phrase comes to mind with that... "i wouldnt trade the world for you".. so, if there is any way in explainin this, why is it that your son is worth more than 100 or so people, plus the families of each who will be affected as well??? I understand this decision is very hard, probably amongst the hardest thing i can think of to decide between... well.. i have to go now. but.. explain if you can, How would you rationalize this decision to anybody??

I wouldn't rationalize it. I am not God. Life is full of unfortunate tragedies but that is the lesson of life. Tragedy is the romance of history, and we cannot change it. Why is the life of my son worth more than 100 people? I don't think that itself is the question to be asking a parent who will have an obvious bias toward his/her child. Because he is my son and I love him is why I will save him over 100 strangers. That is all the rationale I will need to save him. I am not a fan of utilitarian dilemmas, much like the infamous scenario of, "If killing one man would prevent the deaths of 100, would you do it?" And my answer to that is an obvious "No". Murder is still murder.

[garegin]

there is always the right way.
utulitarian "dilemmas" are inconsistent hyphotetical questions. in moral decisions they are always the right answer.

[Anonymouse]

there is always the right way.
utulitarian "dilemmas" are inconsistent hyphotetical questions. in moral decisions they are always the right answer.

That is untrue. To kill one person to supposedly save 100, is not moral as it is still killing. Utilitarianism is inconsistent all around.

[SagGal]

This didn't take me a while to decide. I would save my son, no question about it. To me, it wouldn't be about the number of people I save. Why would I save the 100 people who I don't even know and love? I mean, my son is more important to me. This is hanging on my shoulders and I choose to save my son.

This reminded of an ending of a movie that I saw a couple of days ago on TV. The mother had two sons; one was evil and another was good. Her evil son tried to kill her, while her good son tried to save her from her evil son (his evil brother). At the end of the movie, both of the boys get in a fight and are about to drop from the cliff when all of a sudden the mother catches both of them with her hands (each of her sons with each hand). She thinks very hard of what to do and how to go about this, but since she couldn't pull both of them up, she lets the evil one drop.

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

This didn't take me a while to decide. I would save my son, no question about it. To me, it wouldn't be about the number of people I save. Why would I save the 100 people who I don't even know and love? I mean, my son is more important to me. This is hanging on my shoulders and I choose to save my son.

This reminded of an ending of a movie that I saw a couple of days ago on TV. The mother had two sons; one was evil and another was good. Her evil son tried to kill her, while her good son tried to save her from her evil son (his evil brother). At the end of the movie, both of the boys get in a fight and are about to drop from the cliff when all of a sudden the mother catches both of them with her hands (each of her sons with each hand). She thinks very hard of what to do and how to go about this, but since she couldn't pull both of them up, she lets the evil one drop.

The good one wasn't her son, he was her nephew.

[CatWoman]

I'm sorry, but in this situation, I'll be selfish and save MY SON!!