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Originally Posted by Lebell
The number of persons saved is irrelevent to the morality of taking a life to save another.
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It's easy to
say that, but someone who actually lived by this maxim would be terribly immoral from my perspective. This strikes me as a sort of high horse mentality where one refuses to compromise one's ideals regardless of the consequences. While this might be admirable when it comes to things like peer pressure, I would say that a person who is unwilling to violate their ideals (let's say a prohibition against killing people) in order to save the human race is downright evil.
How many lives is one's principle worth? Why,
why is murdering one person worse than allowing large numbers of people to die? Does it come down to vanity?