by Magus » Tue 21 Mar 2006, 00:50:58
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')Here is a basic left /right question.
Would you kill one innocent person if in doing that you save the whole society from destruction?
you have to answer yes or no.
Yes, is left wing
No is right wing.
how many have the guts to do what is right?
(Don't feel bad, most people would kill society as a whole just so they can drive an SUV. That means personal pleasure rules over the good of the whole.)
I choose option three, shoot the hostage!
(That's a reference to the movie "Speed," for those of you who don't know.)
Seriously though, I wouldn't murder an innocent person. Would kind of violate my personal ethics. If "society" (something I really don't consider worth saving anyway) would be somehow be so weak as to not survive whatever terrible destruction(?) this individual would then inflict, then so be it.
Let's add some complications here to your little question. Say murdering one innocent individual was not sufficient to, "save society," as you put it. Suppose you needed to kill more. How many innocents could you kill before you would consider it wrong? A solitary couple? A dozen school children, perhaps? Maybe one hundred friendly, easygoing factory workers who have children at home to take care of. Maybe you're willing to go further; Perhaps...a thousand, a small towns worth of people, would be enough of a sacrifice...all to save "society."
Me? I just the strange belief that, *sometimes*, the needs of the one may outway the needs of the many!
By the way, here is where myself falls on this little test:
ECONOMIC LEFT/RIGHT: -7.75
SOCIAL LIBERTARIAN: -6.97
You know...I've always hated most of the people (and all of their kind) on the upper section of the chart. Guess I know why now...
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