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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Well obviously its not real life, nor is it a moral test. Obviously from the choices, they wanted each of the 6 to have their own merit and play to to the sympathy of each aspect of emotion (employment? medical? family?) so there obviously is no right or wrong answer.
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No, the right answer is that the participants (and misguided educators) are failing to recognize what the actual philosophical and practical implications of this scenario and exercise are pushing forward because it's training people to consider who lives and who dies based on sympathetic responses to a superficial and difficult to validate criteria (a brief written bio from which you judge the worth of an entire person) which is only a far cry from the same impetuses and justifications for Nazism, slavery, etc.
Anybody who was smart would think outside the box and point out the flaws of the experiment rather than participate in it. That's one reason I couldn't stand a lot of the educators in school. They just don't get it sometimes and know less about history and human nature than the students they are teaching.