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I believe there is nonsense in this thread. [quote user="Ben Hofesh"]I just don't understand how life can be inherintly valuable simply because a person needs to be alive in order to express it's non-value. [/quote] Life does not have inherent value. Nothing has inherent value. All...
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[quote user="a_goedker"]These two statements contradict each other. If there is no proof that murder is morally wrong, than there is no proof that property ownership is a right. Murder is wrong because it is theft of one's property, themselves. If we dont see any thing wrong with murder...
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Imagine that you are on a mountaineering expedition. One of your fellow climbers is involved in an accident that requires immediate medical attention. However, you are almost all the way up the mountain and there is no way that you can get back down in time to get this person to the hospital. Furthermore...
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In applied ethics there is a dilemma known as The Trolley Problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem ). It runs like this: A trolley is running out of control down a track. In its path are 5 people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately, you can flip a switch which...