A runaway trolley is barrelling down a track towards five people who are unable to move. You have access to a lever that may redirect the trolley down another track that has only one person.
The man who placed you all into this cruel scenario is also the man who cured cancer. Are you on high enough moral ground to judge him?
Causing unnecessary harm = morally obligatory to not do.
Preventing harm = morally supererogatory to do.
The latter does not redeem the former. Not morally complex
Didn’t the Nazis find ways to cure Hypothermia, you can do something like this and still an absolute piece of shit, in which case we all have the right to steal your work and discredit you entirely now bye and have a nice day
Morality isn’t a competition where we keep score and one act balances out others. Here’s your Nobel peace prize, enjoy it hanging on your cell wall for kicking a baby.
Thanks for your research, you’re a real hero to millions! Now here is your cell while you await your trial for attempted homicide (is infanticide treated differently?)
Maybe an ass-kicking is the cure for cancer. When my aunt was dying of cancer, not one of us thought of pummeling her on her deathbed. For all we know, that doctor could be saving that baby’s life.
Then there was the guy who accidentally killed millions and damaged the brains of hundreds of millions of children via two inventions: Leaded gasoline and freon. The guy killed more people than anyone in history, and he wasn’t even trying.
I feel one of the first skills of an adult is to be able to separate those things, and be able to look at them rationally. and to do the same between how you feel and your choices.
Listen… If the guy destined to cure cancer is going to have a baby-kicking fetish, we need to find some particularly resilient babies and line them so he can get it out of his system and get back to work.
A runaway trolley is barrelling down a track towards five people who are unable to move. You have access to a lever that may redirect the trolley down another track that has only one person.
The man who placed you all into this cruel scenario is also the man who cured cancer. Are you on high enough moral ground to judge him?
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*Don’t kick the goddamn baby*
They made a statue for this guy in Norway. (nsfw – nude statues for work)
https://pinkplankton.com/norways-naked-angry-sculpture-park/?doing_wp_cron=1650889248.7949469089508056640625
He rapes, but he saves, and he saves more than he rapes.
Causing unnecessary harm = morally obligatory to not do.
Preventing harm = morally supererogatory to do.
The latter does not redeem the former. Not morally complex
Okay but why is no one asking what the baby might have done to deserve it?
Talk about baby privilege.
Elon musk syndrome?
This looks like a job for John Battman. Quick someone put a light in a cloud!
Looks liek the Medic from team Fortress 2….and that its totally something he’d do.
Relevant comedy:
https://youtu.be/lu_Z2HJW21A
Didn’t the Nazis find ways to cure Hypothermia, you can do something like this and still an absolute piece of shit, in which case we all have the right to steal your work and discredit you entirely now bye and have a nice day
Did he cure cancer to help people, or just so he could kick a baby after? If the latter, was it any baby or one in particular?
Funny, but stupid.
Morality isn’t a competition where we keep score and one act balances out others. Here’s your Nobel peace prize, enjoy it hanging on your cell wall for kicking a baby.
That baby looked at him crossways.
You mean all I need to act on my more questionable or objectionable impulses is to cure cancer. I’m game… But where to start?
Every interview after:
Well on the one hand, I really do commend him for curing cancer.
But then again, I really disagree with his opinion to kick that baby.
Na, people forget fast. Now that the cure is out he’s useless
I would do the same thing in his shoes tbh
Thanks for your research, you’re a real hero to millions! Now here is your cell while you await your trial for attempted homicide (is infanticide treated differently?)
i love it.
Maybe an ass-kicking is the cure for cancer. When my aunt was dying of cancer, not one of us thought of pummeling her on her deathbed. For all we know, that doctor could be saving that baby’s life.
Then there was the guy who accidentally killed millions and damaged the brains of hundreds of millions of children via two inventions: Leaded gasoline and freon. The guy killed more people than anyone in history, and he wasn’t even trying.
The vancouver child kicker strikes!
I feel one of the first skills of an adult is to be able to separate those things, and be able to look at them rationally. and to do the same between how you feel and your choices.
Hat was attacked maliciously and unprovoked by a gang of babies in West Town Park. When that many babies get together they can be like piranha.
Soo… The moral Question of Jimmy Savile? (Although that is hardly a question)
You can build 1,000 bridges, and will you be remembered for that? NO! But you fuck one goat….
kiritsugu emiya
well…the mans right
Hitler *diiiid* kill Hitler…
I would read this entire article if real. And I’ve never read an entire article on a newspaper before
same hero, new boots
Listen… If the guy destined to cure cancer is going to have a baby-kicking fetish, we need to find some particularly resilient babies and line them so he can get it out of his system and get back to work.
I guess, but the joke hinges on the idea that kicking a baby is a bad thing.
Hmh. If I invented a cure for hangovers, could I just kick a Trump voter or two?
I dont see any dilemma here. Congrats for saving people, now you have some time you need to spend in jail