So, am I human?
Прочитала любопытную статейку, что когда подопытной группе задали вопрос "Представьте себе, что на спасательном плоту десять человек, и одного необходимо скинуть с него, чтобы спасти остальных (включая себя), смогли бы вы это сделать?" только люди с определенным повреждением лобных долей мозга ответили не сомневаясь что да. Остальные все колебались. А я вот тоже сразу бы ответила да. Потому что для меня десять жизней всяко больше, чем одна, а если еще и моя собственная одна из того десятка - так и тем более. Вопрос "кого скинуть" - вот это болезненный вопрос, тяжелый, а что скидывать надо - так тут даже вопроса нет. Не понимаю, кого уж они и опрашивали, каких блаженных идиотов?
Just read a curious little article, that when a group of people was asked to imagine a situation "There are ten people on the life boat, and you need to throw one of them off in order to save the rest (including yourself), would you do it?", only people with specific damage to the frontal lobes answered yes without reservations. All the rest were in severe moral dilemma. I personally also would answer yes instantly. Simply because ten lives is always better than one, and if mine is one of those ten - then even more so. Now, the question "who to sacrifice" - now that is the hard one, but it is obvious to me that someone would need to be thrown off to save the others. I can't understand what kind of holier-than-thou morons they managed to gather for the study...
Just read a curious little article, that when a group of people was asked to imagine a situation "There are ten people on the life boat, and you need to throw one of them off in order to save the rest (including yourself), would you do it?", only people with specific damage to the frontal lobes answered yes without reservations. All the rest were in severe moral dilemma. I personally also would answer yes instantly. Simply because ten lives is always better than one, and if mine is one of those ten - then even more so. Now, the question "who to sacrifice" - now that is the hard one, but it is obvious to me that someone would need to be thrown off to save the others. I can't understand what kind of holier-than-thou morons they managed to gather for the study...