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Originally Posted by RayA75 View Post
But that's not the point. The unawareness of those men does not justify you deliberately choosing to kill them. Nothing really does, except that you have to make a choice between them and the child. Also, you think choosing to kill a child is morally objectionable, but not ten men?

The point is that you have to kill either nine or ten men or a child, no matter the circumstance. I wouldn't put any other factors into the equation about the circumstance because it's supposed to be an ethical dilemma rather than a circumstantial dilemma.

Ok, so if its an exorcise in pure numbers then i cant really say anything other than say run over the child. That does not sit well with me. Its possible that i cant distance myself enough from the situation to make an objective decision about it, but circumstances matter in situations like this. I will still stick by what i said, the ten men have a greater chance of surviving.