This teacher does realize that you only need to be hooked up to a dialysis machine every couple of days for a few hours? There is no need for anyone to die.
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A number of these scenarios don’t necessarily require people to die. For instance, food for people in the lifeboat: How can they know how long they’ll be adrift? What if they shove five people off the lifeboat ... and rescue comes the very next day? Or what about if the people on the lifeboat have string and a paperclip, make an impromptu fishing pole, and subsist on the fish? Even if they are short of water (more dire than food), maybe someone in the group has a bowl or similar, someone else has some plastic, and they distill fresh water from the seawater?
There are sometimes scenarios that require a choice to be made. (Anyone read “The Cold Equations” lately?) More often, creative thinking can get you out of a jam. The schools should be teaching creative thinking, as well as ethics.
Yep. I used to delight in finding ways to save everybody and since I read every thing I could get my hands on I was pretty good at coming up with ways to do it.
That really annoyed teachers for some reason.
Values clarification? My values were clear from very young. It is never right to deliberately kill an innocent.
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