The value of life Options

[tkproduce]

A lot of debates seemed to be based on this, so I thought I might make a new topic out of it.

Obviously, life is a valuable thing. But how valuable is it to you? Different people have different opinions.

Say this kid at a school has somehow managed to pick up a fatal disease - maybe something like ebola, but worse. If he is not killed in the next 10 minutes, the disease is contagious enough to infect everyone in the school. You're a doctor with a needle in your hand and you are given the responsibility of making the decision of whether or not to kill this kid. What would you do?

Okay, a very unrealistic situation, but it is slightly similar to other situations. Like the war in Iraq. Do you think the lives of some are worth sacrificing for the welfare of others? The debate about abortion. Letting every foetus with a potential for life to live on, wanted or unwanted, may seem ideal to you, but looking at the big picture, I can see overpopulation and poverty.

So how much do you value individual life?

[CrazayChristian]

Well...I value my life yes, but it's either your responsability to kill one kid or it's your fault for th infection of hundreds as well as the death of this kid.

The war is benificial for everyone, the reason the whole thing came about is because Clinton took the CIA budget away so we couldn't track Osama and then we pulled out of the gulf war so quickly and let all this escalate again. I don't like war, but some times you have to do things you don't want for the benefit of everyone. Like the kid, if we had let this go, there would have been even worse consequences, possible a nuclear attack.