Quote (IgoSoHard @ Sep 24 2019 11:04am)

I’d let some PaRD’s die.

If it came down to my gf’s cat & you guys for example, y’all would take the L

Quote (Surfpunk @ 24 Sep 2019 12:05)

I'd take that L. I like animals better than most humans.

Quote (Surfpunk @ Sep 24 2019 11:05am)

I'd take that L. I like animals better than most humans.

Quote (excellence @ Sep 24 2019 11:12am)

https://www.dailydot.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/woman-yelling-at-cat-meme.jpg

yeah the cat wins here

Quote (IgoSoHard @ Sep 24 2019 11:04am)

I’d let some PaRD’s die.

If it came down to my gf’s cat & you guys for example, y’all would take the L

Quote (duffman316 @ Sep 23 2019 07:42am)

While it might be proper to say all lives matter i think we ought to acknowledge the reality that some lives are more valuable than others.

If a runaway train was headed towards your station on a track that splits in two with two groups of people tied up to the tracks by duffman and you had the option to flip a switch that would divert the train from one track to the other (you choose who dies) who would you save and why (if you choose to intervene at all) in the following scenarios.

1. Male vs Female
2. Adult vs Child
3. Physician vs Burglar
4. Neurosurgeon vs 5 poor people
5. 5 people who are wealthy vs 5 people who are poor
6. Your husband/wife/kids vs 20 babies
7. A wealthy business owner vs 20 poor people
8. Someone who agrees with your political views vs someone who disagrees with your political views

I already know my choices and they're quite easy for me but I'm interested to know the metric by which our fellow pardians evaluate human lives

Quote (Handcuffs @ Sep 23 2019 11:54pm)

Not directly related to the examples in the OP, but I'm wresting with my own considerations about the worth of life with respect to largely unresponsive children with congenital or developmental disorders, or traumatic brain injuries. Specifically with kids who have seemingly no quality of life. Like this, as an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCmsZuhl7s0

Quote (Skinned @ Sep 24 2019 07:32pm)

I would like to make mental health advanced directives that state if develop any sort of dementia, which these sorts of things technically are if you aren't born that way, I would like to be euthanized.