Would you kill one to save thousands?

[xxll_martin_llxx]

I saw this on a gaming forum and I thought this would be something interesting to have a chat about on here.

You have to look at it from all kinds of angles.

There is of course, if there's one bad guy, and 1000 good, would you?
That one person was family or a close friend?

What would you do?

[alz4445]

Well, it all depends on really who the one person was, you wouldn't exactly want to get rid of a close friend or relative, even if it was to save 1,000.

[Twinkie]

I probably would, but it also greatly depends. It is hard to tell which is doing the right thing :/

[Smith6612]

This is quite a difficult thing to answer. As everyone else is stating, it app depends on who is doing the killing. Sure, if it was some random guy and you saved thousands, maybe millions of lives by killing him, I guess it could be assuring even though you'll probably be jailed for it.

[galaxyAbstractor]

Well, if it were a person who had killed really many. Like traveling back in time and killing Hitler.
I amy have tried stopping it in some way.
http://www.ask500people.com/question...of-baby-hitler

[Twinkie]

It is cruel to thinks this way, but many medical and other scientific advances have been made by the enslaved. If someone did kill Hitler, the future would be so very different. I am not sure what I would do, but in Saddam Hussein's and Joseph Stalin's case, I probably would try to make sure the circumstances stop them from ever being born (divorce), without actually killing them.

[hcse26]

Well, if it were a person who had killed really many. Like traveling back in time and killing Hitler.
I amy have tried stopping it in some way.
http://www.ask500people.com/question...of-baby-hitler

killing hitler if going back in time is possible? that would scrutinize history. I'll just leave him alone if I could time-travel. Even though he did the things he did, it's already history. Let's just leave it the way it is.

[Zdroyd]

killing hitler if going back in time is possible? that would scrutinize history. I'll just leave him alone if I could time-travel. Even though he did the things he did, it's already history. Let's just leave it the way it is.

Yes and we learn lessons from failures like that... Even extremely bad things have good effects on the whole species...

[kundamor]

why not to make one good with our good attitutes to save thousands+1;