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Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Scott on November 27, 2007, 03:27:28 pm ---Didn't y'all see the final episode of M*A*S*H?
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I did. Exactly this scenario, and like you, I immediately thought of it reading Kerry's post.
I would not be able to smother a baby consciously.
In reality, I think it would be far more likely that the scenario would go like Janice described (and like it was shown in M*A*S*H). People taking the risk of smothering the baby by silencing it. I think this is a big difference to smothering the baby deliberately.
--- Quote ---From David:
For some reason this is making me think about the terrible plane wreck up in the Andes mountains back in the 1970's. I'm sure you all are familiar with this. The survivors of the wreck were forced to eat the dead. Remember that? This is another one of those "could I do it?" scenarios.
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I would have far less scruples to eat an already dead person in such a desperate situation than actively killing someone like in the other scenarios. Of all given scenarios, this is the least horrible to me and I'm pretty sure I would eat.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Scott on November 27, 2007, 03:27:28 pm ---Didn't y'all see the final episode of M*A*S*H?
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I was just about to mention that, scott!
and to be honest, I'm not sure if I'd be able to kill the baby.
ifyoucantfixit:
No one could ever be sure of doing it. I think it would totally be a case by case thing.
I probably am coming off as a non feeling person after my answers to all these questions. If that
Is so, I am sad about it. I am just a pragmatist. As Gary said he is an anarchist, and doesnt want to
do anything of this nature..I am a pragmatist, and want to do the right thing , in order to help
the greatest amount of people, at a given time. I personally would hate to do it.
Maybe. I have an anarchist attitude about survival. And about how others perceive me. I
have a very strong moral code. but it is my own........
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: injest on November 28, 2007, 09:25:28 am ---ok. so you live. What kind of life would you have? The thought of killing an innocent to allow myself to live is not a choice I would make....rationalizing that you are saving OTHER people is just that a rationalization. In the end if you are truthful with yourself, that is what you are doing...thinking only of yourself.
given the scenario without being given the options, I would never have thought of smothering a baby....but I have found lately that I am in the minority with my freakishly backwater sense of morality
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So if you were standing there with your own children, you wouldn't do it for them? Or maybe you have children hidden elsewhere. Would you not smother this baby, knowing that you would be killed with the others in the group and your children would be orphaned and have to figure out how to survive on their own?
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: David on November 28, 2007, 01:41:09 pm ---For some reason this is making me think about the terrible plane wreck up in the Andes mountains back in the 1970's. I'm sure you all are familiar with this. The survivors of the wreck were forced to eat the dead. Remember that? This is another one of those "could I do it?" scenarios.
I don't think I could. But I suppose one never really knows for certain until they are faced with something like this. It's a chilling thought.
This very same thing happened to the Donner party in the 1800's. I think it happened in Colorado.
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Eating dead people is a heckuva lot easier decision to make than smothering a live baby or giving up others to be killed in your stead.
Cannibalism wouldn't be a walk in the park decision-wise, but the people who are dead won't mind missing a couple of parts.
Bon apetit. :P
Actually in the Andes Mountain Crash event, I believe one woman - the mother of someone - refused to eat dead people and died from weakness/injury later.
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