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Well, I tell my son not to live in a "what if" world, because a unicorn may fart and make kill all the terrorists, but here goes.
I'd save the person. All things that man builds will become rubble one day anyway. I have my soul and conscience to worry about.
The person is going to die too, and probably a lot faster than all those monuments. That's an odd dilemma for OP to bring up. I thought he/she was going to asking the monetary value of a human life.
The person is going to die too, and probably a lot faster than all those monuments. That's an odd dilemma for OP to bring up. I thought he/she was going to asking the monetary value of a human life.
This is true, but their life has not yet been fulfilled. This person could develop great things for human kind that have far more impact then a monument. Perhaps they will discover cold fusion. Perhaps they can develop a way to bend space time to make long distance space travel possible. Or maybe discover a cure for all cancer.
A rock monument is full of its potential, it is done, finished. Those things can always be built.
To quote a movie, "its a hell of a thing to kill a man. You take away everything he has, and everything he is ever going to be"
There is also the fact, would you believe the terrorists not to do this again?
Let's say you're at home minding your business and you get a call from a blocked number. The voice on the other end tells you to turn on your television. ....
Which choice would you make?
Right at that point my response would be "Stuff your head up your butt," and I would hang up.
Let's say you're at home minding your business and you get a call from a blocked number. The voice on the other end tells you to turn on your television. You turn on your television and you see the image of a stranger gagged and tied up who will be executed by terrorists. The voice on the other end then tells you that you have a choice. If you choose for the stranger to live, the terrorists will destroy a number of great monuments of human achievement such as the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, Machu Piccu, the Great Wall of China, and the entire collections of the British Museum, the Met, and the Smithsonian. If you allow him to die, all of these will be spared.
Which choice would you make?
Need more information. I need to know more about the person. Were they some pos who committed many heinous crimes? Did they murder anyone, mess with children, beat animals for fun, rob people of their life savings, etc?
I need to know more about the person before I could make a decision.
This is true, but their life has not yet been fulfilled. This person could develop great things for human kind that have far more impact then a monument.
Perhaps they will discover cold fusion. Perhaps they can develop a way to bend space time to make long distance space travel possible. Or maybe discover a cure for all cancer.
Maybe the person's life is fulfilled, or not. If you are judging being fulfilled in terms of making great achievements in the future, there is no way of predicting that. Most of us never achieve great things. We are born, go to school, go to college, maybe finish that, get a series of jobs, work at those many, many years, doing what the boss tells us, get married or live with a life partner or series of partners, perhaps have children, move into various homes or apartments, and everntually die after doing all these tasks repeatedly. There is no greatness in that. It's living an ordinary life, and each person derives varying levels of enjoyment from such a life.
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A rock monument is full of its potential, it is done, finished. Those things can always be built.
A rock monument is something many thousands, or millions, of people can view and enjoy for decades or hundreds of years. They can also produce their own lasting art from it. One person's life will be unlikely to have that much influence on a population of citizens. We're born, we live, and we die, and the only people who will ever remember us are our loved ones. I'm not trying to be negative; just honest.
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There is also the fact, would you believe the terrorists not to do this again?
Ah. Now you're feeding us the TSA party line.
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