Question

If you can save another’s life and don’t because doing so would break the law, are you ethically justified in your decision?


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Answer 1

Answer:

If you can save another's life and don't because doing so would break the law, are you ethically justified in your decision? ... But basically, since life is more important than rules, yes you would be ethically justified, generally. We can always go back to following a broken rule but there isn't any going back on death.

Answer 2

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Explanation:

I don’t think there is a slam dunk answer for this question as stated. Too many moving parts. Is the person we are going to push off of the railroad tracks and save their life a murdering cannibal, a suicidal that will just come back to the tracks tomorrow, or a kid that doesn’t know any better?

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Which law is going to be broken? Are you going to have to off someone else to save the other?

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Then there is bias. If it is my life getting saved then of course you can break any law to do that.

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But basically, since life is more important than rules, yes you would be ethically justified, generally. We can always go back to following a broken rule but there isn’t any going back on death.

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