Hmm. Not quite the way I learned it. Sure you didn’t transpose that one up a couple of semi-tones?
I was once listed in “The Guinness Book of World Records” as the world’s youngest baby.
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If you push a piano out of a plane over an army base, you get B flat major.
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I find it interesting that everyone read option A as if it was already set out which 50 you were saving as opposed to the 50 you save being selected essentially at random. I read it the other way. It makes a big difference. Suppose we change option A to be saving the 50 blue-eyes babies and letting the 50 brown-eyed babies die - suddenly option A is clearly monstrous.
If we do away with the idea of prejudice or another immoral factor driving the choice of which babies to save then the selection of the is random for all we care. For example, if we are saving the 50 closest to the door then that’s not random but unless they were organized in some fashion, it’s morally random.
Anyway, dilemmas like this are perfectly dumb. If you want to understand actual moral dilemmas, look at how real people do real triage. Actual human beings make life and death decisions every day, then dissect those decisions and morally judge one another for them or create policies about them. Philosophers like to pretend they’ve got a lot of insight into the problems of the world, but mostly spend years trying to figure out stuff that everyone else knew when they were six (I have a philosophy degree).
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That still would not get past the moral and ethical issues here.
No indeed!
I’m sorry, you only get ONE horse-sized duck.
You can, however, get a hundred duck-sized horses instead. If you can think of a way to rescue all of the miners with them, you’re golden.
What? Fine print SUCKS!
The gizzard of a horse-sized duck could prove to be quite useful in crushing stone. (A horse is about 300 times larger than a standard mallard.) If all you’re trying to do is make a hole large enough to provide air and water to the trapped miners, that one duck may be enough to keep them alive. After all, you’re just trying to buy time until you safely open the mine and rescue those who are trapped.
So - rescue 50, thus reducing the oxygen use and danger of further collapses. Keep a couple down to use the duck to break a small hole through to the area where the 50 trapped miners are. Meanwhile, send for help - digging tools and water.
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