Values

Walls

By what standard should you judge a life? By how long it is, by how wealthy the person is when they go? Or should you look to what their family or friends say about them? Or are there other viewpoints that should be taken into account?

Comments, please.

The Sweeper

I reckon a life could be valued by the number of other lives it touches in a positive way.

I don't put limitless value on life the way anti-abortionists do. I don't think it's a huge achievement to exist. That's not life, that's just chemicals. It's what you do with your time alive that counts.

I think its nice to be nice and it costs nothing, so everyone should just give it a go. I think it's really important to make other people feel good. (RESIST the urge to quote me and post something perverse please.) And I don't think I've ever heard a truly successful person say "I got where I am today by being mean to the little people. I owe it all to stamping on them."

Then again, I am truly off my biccie on antibiotics at the moment, so burble burble, fluffy green things.

Xterminator

I think life can be rated by quality.

Not how long it was, but how good it was, or could yet be.

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Beruthiel

by how wealthy the person is when they go?

I believe the real wealth of a person is wisdom and happiness, if you have these then you die happy - everything else is just fluff.

dccarm

Judge not, lest thee be judged thyself.

Hobbes

reminds me of a moral dilemma puzzle.

Your hanging onto a rope across from a ledge overlooking a chasm. There are three people on the ledge.

The first one is a one year old child.

The second is a woman in her early twenties and also the mother of the child.

The third is her grandfather.

You can only swing out twice before the ledge will break and the rope is only strong enough for you and one other person.

Who do you rescue?

Should answer your question for you.

bonkey

Where you should say "Swing out, save the grandmother", swing back, hand the rope to the mother, and let her bring the child back to safety. Die yourself.

That moral dilemma?

jc

The Sweeper

Originally posted by bonkey
Where you should say "Swing out, save the grandmother", swing back, hand the rope to the mother, and let her bring the child back to safety. Die yourself.

That moral dilemma?

jc

smooth. very smooth.

Aspro

Where you should say "Swing out, save the grandmother", swing back, hand the rope to the mother, and let her bring the child back to safety. Die yourself.

Except that the grandmother wasn't there. But it's the thought that counts:)

Hobbes

Well there is no real answer to the question Bonkey, all you are saying is you value everyone elses life over your own.

Others would leave the man, or the woman or want to know the history behind each person on the ledge.

Boston

leave the grandfather, you first dutty as the fatther is to save you child, your second dutty as the husband of partner is to save your wife and mother to your child.

beside the grandfathers first dutty is to save his childs and grandchilds life, so therefore he wouldnt want to be saved at the cost of their life

bonkey

Originally posted by Boston
leave the grandfather, you first dutty as the fatther is to save you child, your second dutty as the husband of partner is to save your wife and mother to your child.

No-one said you were the father...

Then again, I misread grandfather as grandmother, so its not like I should be correcting you

jc

Boston

o in that case id save my own ass and wouldnt risk breaking my neck flying around on a rope

SantaHoe

Well if you tied a log to the rope and swung it over for them - you would considerably reduce the stress upon the rope... allowing for a second swing ... and not going over yourself would allow two people to swing back.

- SantaHo3, making riddles out of moral dilemas since 1846.

Victor

But what If you didn't have a log? Only an anvil?