Comments on: Morality And Emergencies http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/25/morality-and-emergencies/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ragnar_Rahl http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/25/morality-and-emergencies/#comment-45702 Ragnar_Rahl Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:47:07 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/25/morality-and-emergencies/#comment-45702 Regarding Aristomedes comment, I think classing the situation as an emergency assumes it is not possible for man B to kill man A. If it is killing man A is fine and dandy, he threatened to kill you, but it’s not an emergency since death threats from someone you can reliably kill without them killing you at any time do not constitute a situation in which it is impossible for you to live.

]]> By: Mark http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/25/morality-and-emergencies/#comment-45479 Mark Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:54:27 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/25/morality-and-emergencies/#comment-45479 Another shortcoming of this is of course the fact that you can’t honestly say you know what you’d do in a situation like they give. There’s always too many variables to make a worthwhile hypothetical and the existence of an emergency will likely place you into a mode where instincts take over. So you can say you would do one thing, but you really don’t know how you’d react if you were actually in that position.

]]> By: Ergo http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/25/morality-and-emergencies/#comment-45430 Ergo Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:37:43 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/25/morality-and-emergencies/#comment-45430 I address this same issue on this post here. Hope you don’t mind me posting the link.

I take a step further and discusss the implications that a person’s moral code in routine life has on his behavior in the face of ethical emergencies.

http://ergosum.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/moral-dilemmas/

]]> By: Aristomedes http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/25/morality-and-emergencies/#comment-45386 Aristomedes Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:41:35 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/25/morality-and-emergencies/#comment-45386 Regarding the “suicide” scenario, would it not be the most moral choice for B to eliminate A, if a.)B has reason to believe he perhaps can escape death himself by doing so, and b.)B believes that C is not as morally culpable as A? (Note that the death of A is not necessarily the only means of elimination.) Perhaps condition b.) is not needed for this moral calculation. Any thoughts?

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