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7 hours ago, Konakaga said:

you inaction still allowed the death, it's more like manslaughter or 2nd degree murder, but you could still be partially responsible for it.

That's why I referred to the collision of choice. If in a situation as such, you must choose the path of least destruction and that is by doing nothing that would lead to a loss of life from your actions. So you'll try to save the baby. 

Besides in a situation such as this how would you know that the five other guys are horrible people? 

47 minutes ago, alyster said:

Tell that to the mother or father. 

I'd ask why the baby was on the track in the first place. I'd say the burden of responsibility resides on those who were supposed to take care of the baby and not some passerby. 

Legally speaking the person deciding has a collision of choice as if he pulls the lever he'll kill an if he doesn't he'll look as the baby dies, so his ownly legal option is to run and try to snatch the baby from the tracks. If he fails he has tried at least, but his hands are clean.

6 hours ago, dakota K. said:

Either way you would be a killer, one could argue that it would be better if the convicts died but who are you to decide what a life is worth? Like BlackAsLight said above you could go with the theistic argument that the convicts will go to hell when they die anyway and if the infant dies it would go to heaven but that argument only works if you are particularly religious but for an atheist that wouldn't work. Both my heart and brain say let the convicts die because they are pieces of human waste but the baby's future is undetermined, it could go on to cure some illness or be the next Stalin. At the end of the day the question shouldn't be would you pull the switch but can you live with being a killer? 

Actually no. If you do nothing then you are not a killer, because to kill you need to be active. You'd just be  person that didn't save the baby.

I'd want to see my children grow up, so I wouldn't do it for any glory inthe world.

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Lol. I'm still in the middle of book one, the point where Rand, Thom and Mat arrived at Whitebridge. It has gotten a lot interesting, but I'm struggling to find time for reading only manage to read before fallinf asleep (like right now) or in the mornings to accompany my breakfast.

1 hour ago, Milord said:

Is chess a sport if it is e-sports its also a sport.

Chess is a game.

Is a white figure on gray. (you really need a profile pic)

Aye,

IC

Don't really watch sports.

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Keeping it natural. Don't want to scare the girls,  the hair makes it look smaller.

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On 11/26/2015, 6:14:38, Infinite Citadel said:

Happy Thanksgiving to the Americans in the alliance  

So I started reading book 1 WoT series. Haven't managed to read very far. My first impression is that it's a much harder book to read. So many long sentences, I've noticed that my mind wanders frequently and I have to re-read sentences. Will struggle on, maybe yesterday I was easily distracted.

Graytest

I finished Words of Radiance, giving this series a shot.

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Heh  Lordships nation is a theme from the books, so he has probably read them. I recently bought the books from Google books and am reading the second book right now. So Ernsters send those 5 dongs my way.

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Woot

Hehe. Darien

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