Paul McKeever Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Does ethics apply in "life boat" or emergency situations? In such situations, is cannibalism right? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=et9-MG3HviM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Read "The Ethics of Emergencies" in VOS. And please refrain going all zombie and eating other people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul McKeever Posted August 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Read "The Ethics of Emergencies" in VOS. And please refrain going all zombie and eating other people. Oh, I've read that essay EC and, rest assured, if you watch my video to the end, you'll see that I condemn the notion that a life boat scenario makes cannibalism ethical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrolicsomeQuipster Posted September 21, 2008 Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 You have to think about the whole situation. If you are weak you couldn'tattack and eat the other person if your stronger you would only have to wait (none of you should be expected to sacrifice) if both of you are equally strong waiting to see who outlasts the other would even be ''fair''. The one who survives the longest could eat the others corpse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeatherFall Posted September 21, 2008 Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 Paul, I completely agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaight Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Oddly enough, people don't generally talk about what would happen in a lifeboat full of altruists. At first blush it would seem that the person with the most to live for would have to jump overboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJJJ Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Oddly enough, people don't generally talk about what would happen in a lifeboat full of altruists. At first blush it would seem that the person with the most to live for would have to jump overboard. Well, people don't generally talk about what would happen if every human being was an altruist. In the lifeboat with two altruists, Peter and Michael, it would go like this: Peter would first kill himself so that Michael could be rescued. Michael would keep himself alive, until the moment he would see a ship in the horizon. Once the ship came closer, and tried to pick him out of the water, he would try to inform the ship either by shouting or by hand signals, that Peter is dead, and that there are no other survivors, so that the boats crew doesn't have to waste their lives searching for survivors. Right after this, Michael would kill himself, so the boat's crew wouldn't have to spend their resources to pick him out of the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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