Would you kill a child to save the life of 100 people?

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:53 pm

I couldn't even kill a chicken to get the nuggets...

It would be all leek and potatos for me...

But - ask again after two or three years of post apocalyptic starvation...
I may be ready to kick up a little vodu ceremony at that point...

...this thread referencing the sacrifice of the 10 year old girl in India last week?

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:04 pm

but - hypothetically

If there was a tour bus and a car - crashed - wedged over a cliff...

and to save the bus - you have to sacrifice the car....
and the thing was tilting at 12 inches a second and you literally had 34 seconds to act...

it's a tragedy for sure...

but if you're talking volcano god - no

Laszlo · Post by **Laszlo** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:13 pm

ketamine wrote:would you kill yourself to save the life of 100 people?

Yes. In a heartbeat.

Sheff · Post by **Sheff** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:14 pm

what the fuck are you going on about bm

Pedro Sánchez · Post by **Pedro Sánchez** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:17 pm

Sheff wrote:what the fuck are you going on about bm

Never ask that question, it has the potential to end time.

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:22 pm

Just sayin' I couldn't even kill an animal in order to eat it...
but get at me after I've experienced severe amounts of starvation..
I may have grown murder balls or something...

This just happened...she was 7 years - not 10

Child sacrificed, liver offered to gods: Indian police
AFP – Sun, Jan 1, 2012...

A seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered in a tribal sacrifice and her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth, police in the central state of Chhattisgarh said on Sunday.

The body of Lalita Tati was found in October one week after her family reported her missing.

"A seven-year-old girl was sacrificed by two persons superstitiously believing that the act would give a better harvest," Narayan Das, the police chief of Bijapur district, told AFP by telephone.

The two men was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of killing the girl and offering her liver to the gods in a grisly tribal ceremony. Police said the men had confessed to the crime.

The girl was murdered in a jungle district of Chhattisgarh that is a stronghold of rebel Maoists who have tapped into disaffection among local tribal groups.

Human sacrifices occasionally make headlines in deeply religious and superstitious India, and usually occur in poor areas where some people revere practitioners of black magic.

Two suspected child sacrifices were reported in Chhattisgarh in 2010, while in the same year the decapitated body of a factory worker was found in a temple in the eastern state of West Bengal.

The victims are often ritually killed by witchdoctors to appease gods, spirits or deities.

kay · Post by **kay** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:13 pm

Depends on the situation and who the 100 people are.

mylon · Post by **mylon** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:54 pm

Probably.
To ketamine's question, as selfish as it sounds i probably wouldn't.
A lot of factors would change that decision, though.

Neptune · Post by **Neptune** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:34 pm

can't we all just be friends?

fractal · Post by **fractal** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:42 pm

only if i could pick the child

ascent · Post by **ascent** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:37 pm

logically I would kill the child but whether I could actually go through with it I don't know. I think I probably could but really it depends.
if it was me or 100 people, I'd go and kill each of them myself if I had to. unless they were family or friends.

LA_Boxers · Post by **LA_Boxers** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:40 pm

So is this child going to kill the 100 people if I dont kill it?

LACE · Post by **LACE** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:49 pm

what if the child was wearing this little number

MilkyPirate · Post by **MilkyPirate** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:54 pm

LACE wrote:what if the child was wearing this little number

kill it with fire

jameshk · Post by **jameshk** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:23 pm

Probably, who says a child's life is automaticly more valuable?

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:14 pm

Supposedly, the big kahuna can kill his own kid to save billions,
so I guess it's OK for me to kill somebody else's kid to save a hundred.
Conscience mollified, it becomes just a matter of circumstance.

Today · Post by **Today** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:20 pm

if it were one infant vs. 100 teens, i'd be tempted to kill the teens
but tbh, an infant's life is more expendable imo
the teens have put nearly 20 years into becoming something
the infant has nothing invested and no concept of death
so its less of a tragedy
Teens are just about to get their lives started

also... children are people
so it could be a trick question, one child vs 100 children.. or 25 children, 60 adults and 15 seniors, or whatever.
Prepare your disturbing polls better next time, Wub

wub · Post by **wub** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:22 pm

LACE wrote:what if the child was wearing this little number

I'd kill it's parents as well.

frank grimes jr. · Post by **frank grimes jr.** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:31 pm

A child would have a clear conscious.

pete_bubonic · Post by **pete_bubonic** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:00 pm

Short of killing everyone anyway, I need more info. Why would this child cause the death of 100 people?

Actually, killing them all is a better option.

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