Can taking a life ever be justified?
It takes one word to answer this question and yet neither answer is better than the other.
If you were put in a situation where killing a person meant saving the life of another, how could you make that decision. By letting one live you are essentially killing the other.
Although this is a hypothetical question and you would probably never be put in this circumstance, it brings up a question that we all attempt to hide from.
Is one life ever more valuable than another? Or does it matter if more lives are saved than the number of lives taken? And, if so, how do we weigh the value of one person's life?
If you are actually reading this then you might be expecting me to provide you an answer at this point. But, I can't.
I agree with what you are saying here. There is no answer to this question, just various opinions. To say there is one correct answer to this is absurd, because there is no definite way to measure a life's worth or which life is more important in this circumstance.
ReplyDeleteRiley, you're right, there is no definitive answer to the question you pose. Personally I think that no one can say one persons life is more meaningful than the the next person. I think this question will never be able to have a for sure answer, but it's definitely an interesting and thought provoking question.
ReplyDeleteI really like this question because answers can be very similar yet very different at the same time and someones answer to this question helps define them as a person and says alot about who they are.
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