Ok, so a new hypothetical.

[lawtonfogle]

Ok, so you and a kid are in a room. Now, you are given three choices, the if, ands and whats are taken care of, there is no alternative. No choosing to do nothing, no saying it is someone elses fault. The hypothetical hypothetical is set up such that these things are not allowed. So, your choices are kill the child, kill yourself, or rape the child.

So, my question is this, do you find this hypothetical more offensive than the previous ones because it involves the concept of rape and not just killing? If so, is this because rape is worse than killing?

P.S. I don't actually expect anyone to answer the hypothetical, this is a thread about your immediate and longer term reactions to said hypothetical.

 

[Billnew]

Did you post this in the right area?
Cause I have no idea what you are talking about and you need a
real link to a news story to post in this forum.

 

[lawtonfogle]

Did you post this in the right area?
Cause I have no idea what you are talking about and you need a
real link to a news story to post in this forum.

No, no I didn't post it in the right area...

If a mod would kindly move this over to ethics and morality please.

 

[ArnautDaniel]

Have we been watching "Saw" again?

 

[praying]

Mod Hat On

Moved from News and Current Events.

Mod Hat Off

 

[Zaac]

Ok, so you and a kid are in a room. Now, you are given three choices, the if, ands and whats are taken care of, there is no alternative. No choosing to do nothing, no saying it is someone elses fault. The hypothetical hypothetical is set up such that these things are not allowed. So, your choices are kill the child, kill yourself, or rape the child.

So, my question is this, do you find this hypothetical more offensive than the previous ones because it involves the concept of rape and not just killing? If so, is this because rape is worse than killing?

P.S. I don't actually expect anyone to answer the hypothetical, this is a thread about your immediate and longer term reactions to said hypothetical.

Why would I be offended by a hypothetical?

 

[corvus_corax]

Why would I be offended by a hypothetical?

Quite like the "plane crash" hypothetical, nobody can honestly answer this question, except with what they HOPE they would do.
Unless, of course, anyone has actually BEEN through this situation, which I seriously doubt.
Highly improbable hypothetical moral situations generally cannot be answered with absolute honesty, only what we would HOPE we would do.
And the OP in incomplete, to boot.

And no, I don't find it more/less offensive based on a hypothetical "rape" scenario. Of course, the OP is incomplete (method of death is omitted, for example, plus other parameters).
The omissions are what make these "moral quandaries" incomplete.
Not to mention pointless, as I don't think any of us have actually FACED these very quandaries.

 

[lawtonfogle]

Have we been watching "Saw" again?

I have never actually seen any of them.

 

[lawtonfogle]

Quite like the "plane crash" hypothetical, nobody can honestly answer this question, except with what they HOPE they would do.
Unless, of course, anyone has actually BEEN through this situation, which I seriously doubt.
Highly improbable hypothetical moral situations generally cannot be answered with absolute honesty, only what we would HOPE we would do.
And the OP in incomplete, to boot.

And no, I don't find it more/less offensive based on a hypothetical "rape" scenario. Of course, the OP is incomplete (method of death is omitted, for example, plus other parameters).
The omissions are what make these "moral quandaries" incomplete.
Not to mention pointless, as I don't think any of us have actually FACED these very quandaries.

You are over analyzing what I was asking. I was just asking if the including some form of rape is found to be more offensive than death. You see, we see death in media so often, so someone using it doesn't seem to get the same reaction as someone using rape which is far rarer and on average treated far more serious, or so I would think, so I asked this.

 

[BobW188]

Since I'm a child at heart, I'd rape myself.

 

[The Nihilist]

If the kid consents, does that break the hypothetical? In some states, some kids can do that.

 

[lawtonfogle]

If the kid consents, does that break the hypothetical? In some states, some kids can do that.

Not by law (where I live), so that wouldn't matter (though it would make some feel more justified).