03-11-2008, 08:43 PM
Quote: taken logically to preserve the most lives for the most time. Cannibalism seems odious when it is unneccesary, but if it saves lives? Pass the co-pilot. Even outright murder, if it can be demonstrated that it was strictly necessary to save further lives(or, in this case, fairly decided and mutually agreed upon), is acceptable.
Such decisions always result in victums, will result in imbalance of power and never be fair. I am not an advocate of such decisions, because that would treat the subject too lightly, allow violence to be used too freely. I am reminded of both Lord of the Flies,where little boys go crazy in absence of civilization, and Star Trek's OS epsidoe "A Taste of Armageddon", where war is treated too casually and death too common a justification to be lazy rather than work towards peace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Ar...8TOS_episode%29