982 Inscrutable Choices

<p>At sometime in your life, you’ve been presented with the quandary of whether one person’s life should be sacrificed for many lives, or whether the life of a child is more valuable than that of an adult. There are 10 famous moral quandaries, titled: Lifeboat, The Mad Bomber, Drug Bust, Hit & Run, Nieces & Daughters, The Pregnant Woman, The Neighbor, Spam Filtering, The Accident, and Concentration Camp. If you take these tests, you’ll find the choices are inscrutable, but there is a logical & rational way to view them, to wit: no one can know the future, no one has all information, and there are no moral choices, so do the most expedient thing given the information you have, no guessing.</p> <p><span lang="en-US">For example, most things you know nothing about, so don’t act; who knows where the next lightening strike will be; it could be exactly where you’d be standing if you moved. If your </span><span lang="en-US">children are threatened</span><span lang="en-US">, save </span><span lang="en-US">them</span><span lang="en-US">, and hope the rest of the people transport through a </span><span lang="en-US">space</span><span lang="en-US"> portal just in the nick of time. Often hostage-taking is used to justify betrayal: if a kidnapper said you had to violate all you believed in or they will kill your </span><span lang="en-US">son</span><span lang="en-US">, what are you going to do? D</span><span lang="en-US">o whatever you can to rescue </span><span lang="en-US">him</span><span lang="en-US"> but certainly don't let the kidnappers win twice by destroying your honor. T</span><span lang="en-US">o sacrifice yourself so that a child can live, or even a whole town, is futile at best, and could possible make the situation worse: one of the people in that town could be the next Hitler.</span></p>