Philosophical Dilemma.

[cry freedom]

Originally Posted by scratchnsniff

Your well out of communication, surrounded by quicksand, no way of knowing if all your plans have fallen apart. you could be lost for ages.

You save the Ibex-
You cant eat the man. (not as easily anyway)

Good bit of lateral thinking, even if somewhat outside the spirit of the exercise

[Bobert]

Throw them both a gun and whoever kills the other first gets to live.

[DCon]

If the man ever gave FF a preference, you save the animal.

[cry freedom]

Originally Posted by Cato

How could you think of letting a beautiful species like this die out for all eternity to save one lousy human.

[jmcc]

Originally Posted by cry freedom

Having spent more time than I should on other threads recently reading about objective an subjective morality I would like to pose the following philosophical dilemma:

Sounds like you have a bit too much time on your hands.

You, standing on the edge of the quick sand suddenly realize you can only rescue one or the other of then, but not both.

You rescue the animal and tell the human to float and how to get out by hanging on to the animal. That way you rescue the animal and the animal rescues the human.

Regards...jmcc

[former wesleyan]

Since we're hardwired to survive and hardwired survival means protecting our own species, you make a choice to save the animal, thereby excercising that faculty which seperates us from animals; reason.

[cry freedom]

Originally Posted by former wesleyan

Since we're hardwired to survive and hardwired survival means protecting our own species, you make a choice to save the animal, thereby excercising that faculty which seperates us from animals; reason.

The hardwiring is a hangover from when we were few and the animals were more likely to eat us than we them. In modern times when we are in danger of turning the whole world into a shopping mall, at the expense of more vulnerable species, does the same morality apply?

[evercloserunion]

Save the highest bidder.

[evercloserunion]

Originally Posted by cry freedom

The hardwiring is a hangover from when we were few and the animals were more likely to eat us than we them. In modern times when we are in danger of turning the whole world into a shopping mall, at the expense of more vulnerable species, does the same morality apply?

I think he was agreeing with you; note he said to save the animal.

[cry freedom]

Originally Posted by evercloserunion

I think he was agreeing with you; note he said to save the animal.

You are indeed correct/ apologies to fw/I completely misread the post/ It's so seldom anyone agrees with me.