Cookie Thread Act 3: The Cookie Strikes Back

General
#18691

You can jist send some cheaper thing…

#18692

A situation arises where you can either save your own child from death or contact the emergency services in order to save the lives of ten other children. You cannot do both, and there is no way to save everybody. Which course of action are you morally obliged to follow?

Save Your Own Child
Save Ten Other Children

#18693

Like do i need the ten pounds for something else that week

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#18694

ten other children

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#18695

guys you were supposed to stop arete wtf
now we are killing our own child

#18696

you gotta pick the ten but why can’t the emergency services save your own child? are they stupid?

#18697

prob not

#18698

your own child

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#18699

excited to see how the quiz feels about us not murdering one person to save ten, but saving ten people rather than our own child

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#18700

Depends how close I am emotionally with the other parent, along with the value of the lives

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#18701

and literally nobody who has a child would ever pick the 2nd option unless they want their kid to die

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#18702

I doubt any sane person would pick than other’s kid, even if it’s morally bad…

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#18703

save the ten, i would save my own and realistically almost everyone would

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#18704

i would pick the second option especially if my child was a fol catperson

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#18705

yeah i feel like you are emotionally invested there and kinda have a social contract and obligation to save your child from becoming a statiistic

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#18706

If i was still head over heels for my partner then i’d never give up the kid

#18707

oh
logically this feels obvious when you say it
but also I realize how much I have viewed some disabilities as a tragedy now that I read this

#18708

this killed me

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#18709

it didn’t ask what I’d pick, it asked what I was morally obligated to pick. it’s possible that if I had a kid I’d make the morally wrong choice of saving my own child and letting ten kids die.

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#18710

Blindness as A Discrete Badness that happens to other people and can be cured or uncured and which holds some set amount of Negative Moral Value. Or even the opposite perspective of ohhh well it improves your other senses so it’s good actually. It’s not good or bad it just is. Accepting stuff for anything other than “is” is foreign to me

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