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Topic	Your apartment is burning. You can only save ONE: Your dog, or a random baby.
kind9 11/20/18 7:46:04 AM #159:	darkknight109 posted... there's no way you could possibly justify letting a child die if you had the opportunity to save it. There are no moral absolutes so neither choice is necessarily wrong. Judging by the poll results that seems pretty clear. In this hypothetical situation you presumably don't even know the building is about to collapse so it's not fair to equate saving the dog with killing the baby. I don't care that the baby is human, humans are animals too. There is no inherent sanctity in a human life that should make a rando baby more precious to you than your loyal companion. I guarantee you people would be more likely to save the baby due to social pressures rather than their own feelings. --- https://imgur.com/NkZUeFd <cite>kind9 posted [p:912728297] in Your apart... [t:77212651]...</cite> <quote><cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>there's no way you could possibly justify letting a child die if you had the opportunity to save it.</quote> There are no moral absolutes so neither choice is necessarily wrong. Judging by the poll results that seems pretty clear. In this hypothetical situation you presumably don't even know the building is about to collapse so it's not fair to equate saving the dog with killing the baby. I don't care that the baby is human, humans are animals too. There is no inherent sanctity in a human life that should make a rando baby more precious to you than your loyal companion. I guarantee you people would be more likely to save the baby due to social pressures rather than their own feelings. --- https://imgur.com/NkZUeFd</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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