that's like asking what's heavier a kilo of bricks or a kilo of feathers
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25 to life because you couldn't controll your anger
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25 to life because you couldn't controll your anger
Funk
Let me answer your question with a question. If a gunman took your wife and a stranger hostage. Then said he was going to kill one of the two and you had to choose but he WAS going to kill one. Your answer would be to flip a coin. I place value on all lives but never would i pick a person of another country over an american. Just like you wouldn't say a strangers life is as important to you as your wife.
Let me answer your question with a question. If a gunman took your wife and a stranger hostage. Then said he was going to kill one of the two and you had to choose but he WAS going to kill one. Your answer would be to flip a coin. I place value on all lives but never would i pick a person of another country over an american. Just like you wouldn't say a strangers life is as important to you as your wife.
gamblingislife,
So if you take an American that I've never met and know nothing about and a person of any other nation that I've never met and know nothing about, and I have to decide which lives and which dies, I'm supposed to pick the American because I'm American? How do I know that the American isn't a Timothy McVeigh and that the foreigner isn't a Gandi or vice versa?
Again the value of human life has no nationality.
So if you take an American that I've never met and know nothing about and a person of any other nation that I've never met and know nothing about, and I have to decide which lives and which dies, I'm supposed to pick the American because I'm American? How do I know that the American isn't a Timothy McVeigh and that the foreigner isn't a Gandi or vice versa?
Again the value of human life has no nationality.
FunkSB, you must be studying Immanuel Kant in school...
The answer to this is simple in this war debate. The life of YOUR countryman is prized higher than any others.
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"This is the business we've chosen." - Hyman Roth
The answer to this is simple in this war debate. The life of YOUR countryman is prized higher than any others.
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"This is the business we've chosen." - Hyman Roth
If Saddam were to use this poll he would probably look for a "Neither Iraqi and US citizen" responce. The reason is that Saddam has used biological weapons on his own people, uses Iraqui citizens as human shields, etc.
As for which life is more preciouse, as a US citizen I would pick an American any time over an Iraqui. The reason, is that if you ask the same question to any muslim, they would select their own kind. The first reason for the obvious patriotism but the second reason is because they will always select someone of their own religion. They would never select an American because muslims hate cristians and jews.
As for which life is more preciouse, as a US citizen I would pick an American any time over an Iraqui. The reason, is that if you ask the same question to any muslim, they would select their own kind. The first reason for the obvious patriotism but the second reason is because they will always select someone of their own religion. They would never select an American because muslims hate cristians and jews.
Well, basically the way I view it is that all lives have the capacity, for lack of a better word, to be absolutely equal with respect to that question - I'm not answering the US vs. Iraqi question, I'm answering the overall question. However, if you were to ask me whose life I would spare, my mother's or a convicted U.S. murderer, I wouldn't hesitate to choose my mother. There are all kinds of gradations in between - that's why answering your question is impossible for me. I see no fundamental difference between the life of an 'innocent' American and Iraqi citizen, but I see a huge difference between the 'innocent' American civilian and the people who are consciously supportive of the horror of Hussein's brutal, sickening regime, and I also see a difference between the 'innocent' Iraqi civilian and U.S. criminals convicted and actually guilty of violent crimes. Which means that while all lives begin 'innocent' with respect to questions of your type, some eventually choose what I consider evil while others don't, and yes, we do have to judge in this world whether or not anyone feels that's to be left to God.
This is an extremely difficult and loaded question to properly answer with a poll, so I can't do it completely, it requires answering other fundamental questions as to your religious, secular moral and epistemological background, so as to inform the discussion as to your bias in answering the question.
But I think I've answered it sufficiently for my purposes.
This is an extremely difficult and loaded question to properly answer with a poll, so I can't do it completely, it requires answering other fundamental questions as to your religious, secular moral and epistemological background, so as to inform the discussion as to your bias in answering the question.
But I think I've answered it sufficiently for my purposes.
