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marions ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 02:19 PM
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112. some do some don't
This is not a situation where you can attribute a sense of morality to it. It is not more moral to hit one baby rather than to hit multiple pedestrians. Too many variables--maybe the adults have a better chance of surviving. People don't make the best decisions under extreme circumstances and they should not be judged as to the morality of what they did in a situation that most of us cannot really imagine. But armchair philosophers will sit around and pose these little brain teasers to try to argue that there is a moral failure for not making the "right" choice.

So I guess you think the jumpers did the "wrong" thing? :shrug: All I can say is--you weren't there.
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