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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

What if someone gives you the choice between them shooting one baby, or them shooting two? That's more analogous to our situation. Would you simply refuse to participate, increasing the chance of both babies dying, or would you make the choice for only one and accept some responsibility? It's basically the trolley problem.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Unironically yes, obviously I would refuse to participate in this baby murderer's game. I'm not going to say, "Please only kill one baby," I'm going to spit on his face and tell him to go to hell. And then he's going to murder as many babies as he wants, as he was going to do anyway.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I guess I just don't understand why someone would do this. I mean if I had a gun I'd also just shoot the murderer, but assassination is "illegal" and "a federal crime" so unfortunately that's not an option.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

In this hypothetical, because I refuse to give him the satisfaction of cooperating in any way. If he knows that he can get me to do things by threatening to kill babies, then I'm just encouraging him to threaten to kill babies.

I'm not trying to "talk tough," there are situations where I would cooperate with a hostage taker, but murdering babies is a red line, for me personally.

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