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Would you rather...

kill yourself

push a button and have a random 10,000 people die

You would not be punished, but people would know what you did.

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Feb 27, 2012

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kill yourself

No individual has the moral standing to end 10,000 lives, each of which has as much right to exist as your own
Those 10,000 people might include doctors, scientists, or anyone whose work could have changed the world
Living with the knowledge that you caused thousands of deaths would be an unbearable psychological burden

push a button and have a random 10,000 people die

Global overpopulation makes reducing world population a pragmatic benefit, however cold that calculation is
Self-preservation is one of the deepest human instincts, and nearly anyone would act to survive when forced to choose
All 10,000 would die eventually anyway, making the moral weight of hastening those deaths genuinely debatable

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