A Contemporary Moral Issue

What line of thought do you personally use for this?

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• morality
• ethics
• cave
• fatman
• issues
• ectopic
• pregnancy
• dynamite

[IntarwebUser]

So... The fat man managed to make an airtight, waterproof seal when he got himself stuck in the entrance to the cave? Riiiight. There's contrived, and then there's ridiculously stupid.

I'd use the stick of dynamite as a wedge to break the seal so that the water could flow out, then I'd call the fire department.

For your second question - even if you wanted to save the child at the expense of the mother, the kid would probably die anyway. Cut 'er out - better one death than two.

[tNt9trip]

@IntarwebUser - It's hypothetical, and if you're focused on that, you're missing the bigger picture. Please reference 0:48 - 0:53 for that, and 0:55-0:59 for the notion of the "implausible example".

[kerplunk288]

You cannot morally blow the fat man up in order to save the three, because you be using him as a means to end, rather than an end on to himself. Physiologically your presentation of ectopic pregnancies is inaccurate. From my knowledge, you cannot C-Section the child to save it, because it is still too underdeveloped. The fat man and the ectopic pregnancy are two different scenarios. The death of the embryo is an unintended negative side effect, rather than an intended means to an end.

[lumarie23]

What about the morality of using the idea of a fat person to explain how moralistic you can be? make the connections!!!!! ;) xxx

[mistaspot1]

Hmm... In this instance one would have to value consciousness and take into account the low amount of suffering the embryo would undergo. Save the life of the woman. If you don't do anything, both will die right? You have to do something..

[ivanuni]

Kill the child, duh... It's not a child even, it's an embryo. The mother is a fully developed person.

And blow that fat man to pieces! What's he up to, getting stuck in caves and trapping people in? No good!