A Question...

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I just watched Swordfish (staring Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry) and the film asked a question that I thought was pretty good. If you could cure every single disease in the world but to do so had to kill one innocent child, would you do it?

P.S. Just realized this may be best in the Plrtz Glrb forum so if any mods agree just move it in there.
 
Wow that's a tough question. (I love that movie by the way!) I really don't know if I would go for it. On one hand you're saving so many other lives, that in many cases are also innocent lives meaning that they didn't bring the disease upon themselves, but taking a child's life would be so difficult. Taking any innocent life would be difficult. Could you really live with yourself after doing that?

I know this is in caritas, but I have to link it back to Buffy. In the episode "Dead Things" this theme is played out when Buffy tries to turn herself into the police.
BUFFY:A girl is dead because of me.
SPIKE: And how many people are alive because of you? How many have you saved? One dead girl doesn't tip the scale.
BUFFY:That's all it is to you, isn't it? Just another body!
SPIKE: Buffy-
BUFFY: You can't understand why this is killing me, can you?
Taking one innocent life would rip any moral person apart. I don't know about this one. I'll have to think about it for a while.
 
wow that's a difficult question.....but I guess I would
cause as spike said "And how many people are alive because of you? How many have you saved? One dead girl doesn't tip the scale." this so true....i mean of course it is someone's life you take.....but how many lives are u savin?
millions
 
I would..not a children lover,sorry...Besides it's just 1 life in the way of thousand of people..and yes,you can all hate me now
 
I wouldn't the boy dosen't deserve to die, and suppose that the other people shouldn't really, but still I couldn't live knowing that I killed a child just to save other people. It's not the childs fault that there are all these dieseases so he shouldn't die.
 
To be completely cold about it,disease is what keeps the world from completely being overrun with people,anyway without disease my job would be made redundant so no way! :: wacko2
 
My first instinct said "kill the kid". If millions could be saved, it's well worth the sacrifice. Whether or not I could live with myself...now that's another story...
 
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