Interesting Moral Question 2

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Consider this:</p>

<p>One day you are drawing in your notebook and you decide to create a diagram of your relationships. The innermost circle contains just you and your family. The second circle is your closest friends. The third circle is for your friends. The fourth circle is for acquaintances.</p>

<p>That day, a magical man stops you. He demands to see your diagram of people.
He gives you an offer - you will be able to guarantee the healthy and happy lives of 500 people outside of your 5th circle for 20 years, who would have probably died otherwise. However, in exchange for this, you must sacrifice one person on your 3th circle and three in your 4th. You may not chose who these people are. They will die a painless death and nobody will know you did it. </p>

<p>The second deal is this - You can sacrifice yourself for the same benefits of the above situation.</p>

<p>If you refuse the deals, then someone in your third circle will have their remaining lifespan cut in half, AND someone in your second circle has a 30% chance of having their remaining lifespan cut in half. Again, nobody will know you did anything.</p>

<p>What do you do?
For the first interesting moral question - see this <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/926033-interesting-moral-question.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/926033-interesting-moral-question.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Refusing the deal seems like the most logical choice.</p>

3

<p>Refuse I guess because my “circle” will probably change a lot over whatever half their lifespan is but really, these aren’t “interesting moral questions” at all, they are boring and they suck so just stop.</p>

4

<p>What anime is this scenario from this time?</p>

<p>As for choosing, I refuse. Who cares if people live a miserable life and die early? Life is not supposed to be all happy and healthy anyways, and plus, you can’t choose one person over another. It’s like justifying that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was moral because we saved a lot of American lives in exchange for that of the Japanese…</p>

5

<p>Neither. I would refuse to pick.</p>

6

<p>Oh, no, you just discovered a loophole!!!</p>