Why? and is it correct...
A question I have in mind for a long long time and what better place to ask than my friends and colleagues on LinkedIn. Few of the most intelligent people I know and respect are here...
I'll make it short.
One child is playing on an un used railway track.
His parents taught him to do the right thing.
His friends coaxed him to play on the tracks in service he denied and they left him here alone.
His friends are playing on the actively used tracks.
They least bother about what was taught by parents and teachers.
A train has lost control and is speeding at them.
The person at the juncture can see the boy and his friends on both sides.
He knows the train is gonna kill, his choice will be whom.
Now as I know society and as I have seen all these years of my life.... The guy chooses one over the seven boys playing and he is dead.
Is that right and is this what should happen? Should we take decisions on this parameter now and moving on? Was the Boy Wrong? Why did he die?
PS. There are times when the mind inspite of the daily challenges focus on these questions. Its our answer to these which affect our daily decisions, subconsciously...
Kind of a complicated decision but from the Driver's perspective he saved seven lives. "If the person that you were sacrificing was a Noble Man and the rest were just humans, I would sacrifice the queen because she is only one person. It would still be classed as murder any way you look at it and if you sacrifice one person you are saving many people."
It's very hard to find any good in a bad decision.
The preception i think is to minimize loss sir... Not to objectify the boys but at times qunatitative decisions do more harm qualitatively...