Ethics+2

Submit at least 2 wiki comments by 11:59 on Sunday, 3/27. Please respond to the following ethical dilemma. Then, weigh out how you reached the conclusion you did. Did you consider motives? Happiness? Consequences?

You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?

E.Tenort: does this mean we do LQ's next week?

M.Getch: Kick the chair out, my son is going to die anyway. His fate is sealed, and try as I might there is no reprieve. To exact vengeance on another individual in the misinformed hope of my sons survival is illogical and greedy. To put it bluntly, sorry kid, you shouldn't have tried to escape.

B. Uribe: As difficult as this situation is I would decide to pull the chair out. With a prison warden that harsh, I'm sure that the majority if not all prisoners died at some point in the camp. It would cause me much trauma but I would be saving my son from further torture later and saving an innocent person. Yes, I would have wanted my son to escape but others should not have to suffer from it, including the person dying and their family left. Essentially, the community should not have to pay for one person's mistake.

E.Tenort: Pull the chair, grab a leg of it and beat the guard in the head. Throw the other inmate under your son, saving him and finish breaking out.

E.Tenort: So the reason for my actions are crazy hypothetical situation warrant crazy hypothetical answers.

A.Castaneda: As M.Getch and Ms. Uribe stated, I would as well pull the chair out. My son will die anyways why sacrifice an innocent human being for the actions of someone else. As much as it will hurt, it was his mistake to try to escape the consequences will happen no matter what, hence, the no need to kill another innocent inmate.

M.Getch: But Andrea, we are all inmates in a concentration camp. Following the same suit of logic (we are all already going to die statistically speaking) then our lives are all ready forfeit. I would argue the same doubt should be offered to the son. Also, Andrea, I'm not letting you near any one of my kids.

N.Cuevas: Even though it is my son, I would remove the chair from his feet because he would eventually died and I would not want to be the cause of other individual's deaths as well.

N.Cuevas: I reached to that conclusion because of the consequences of my acts. I would not like to observe the deaths of innocent people that were killed because I did not want to kill my own child who was indeed going to be killed by other people

J.Carvajal:I will remove the chair also becuase i will not want to be the cause of other people to be kill.

J.Carvajal: I reach to these comclusion because because i dont want to be the cause of other people to get kill, and also because my son will died any ways becuase of the years.

Curtis Wilson-Patterson: In this case I would not agree to perform the action that the guard requested. First,I do not believe it is right to kill a human being under any circumstances.Secondly,I couldn't go on mentally knowing that I killed someone when I know thats not the right thing to do. Lastly, I could not live knowing that I was responsible for my sons death. Thats my seed and I would never want to see anything bad happen to my seed. I would only hope the best for him and would only do things that would build him up and help him to reach his full potential.

Curtis Wilson-Patterson: I have chosen to make this decision because I know its the right thing to do and anything that contradicts it is wrong. The contradiction would be the killing of any human being. Theres no question that the action of killing is wrong.

L. Silva: I would kick the chair out in order to excuse the death sentence of another individual.

L. Silva: I came to this conclusion because my son is going to die anyways. Giving the guard a hard time wouldn't help the situation out at all, but rather make it worse for perhaps another family.

G.Yanez: Logically speaking, I would take out the chair myself so that other people would not die.

G.Yanez: Emotionally speaking, I think the love i have for my son darkens any other implications that might arise if I do not do it, so I would not take the chair myself and have other people die.

E. Peterson: I wouldnt pull the chair from under the kids feet. I would keep my dignity and try saving him or go down with him.

E. Peterson: looking at the possible outcomes not only would I hate myself for killing my son and possibly go into trauma, but i would also have enemies that were once friends who might want to kill me as well, and on top of that they would probably kill me afterwards as well. As Mr. Getch said statistically we would all die anyways. Whether or not that other innocent inmate got killed or not i would be numb to the thought of him dying since death would be all around me.