So, today in class there was an interesting discussion of ethics.
The scenario was that there was a train on some tracks, heading for a mother and her baby who were stuck. You could, however, throw a switch and have the train change direction - which would result in the train running over a drunk who was sprawled across the other tracks. The professor then asked whether or not you should throw the switch, saving the woman/child but killing the drunk. He then said that there was no right choice, that in fact there was no choice - ethically, it was not your place to decide who lived and who died.A student then said that the baby was innocent, and that there was nothing that could ever justify letting the train run over the woman and her child, killing two lives to save one.Instantly I said "The baby is Hitler!" and the class burst unto laughter.Point, set, match.
You know how we Americans always need to have different sets of rules. Also, because our population can barely add single digits, we simplified the system to be 3 points for men, because we're chauvinist pigs; 2 for women, because of breasts; and 1 for babies, because children don't matter, silly.
What the hell are a mother and her baby doing on the train tracks, and why won't they get off?
what the hell am i doing on the train tracks, and dont they have locks on those track switchy things?
Haha Amazing.
What year are you at RIT?I may be going there.