In Philosophy Club most people raised their hands in saying that they would hypothetically take money to allow a person to commit adultery with their newly married spouse. One person who didn’t said, “So you are putting a price on adultery?” Then a second question of, “Would you take 10 million dollars if someone you didn’t know had to die?” (Like that movie where they just push the button), and that same guy who was against the adulterous act raised his hand for this along with many others. The honor of a marriage is priceless, but a human life is not, wow. Pretty much everybody also said in the hypothetical situation of somebody coming into the classroom, putting a gun to their head, and telling them to pick somebody to die, that they could pick somebody out to take their place as the victim.
This all stemmed from the discussion of ‘human value,’ or the idea of one life being more valuable to another. You could say that we came to the conclusion that it really is completely relative, but a absolute true value would have to come down to either incalculable or equal.
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