You can cure any and all diseases you choose, but you lose your loved ones in the process.
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I'm honestly disgusted by the results of this poll. This just goes to show how far humanity has fallen. There's clearly only one morally correct choice yet it's far behind the winning option.
I like booty.
I like booty.
Because we can't actually learn to "love" humanity in a general sense, we instead rely on learning from loved ones how we should treat others and make ethical decisions that gesture towards humanity. So I'm going to say no.
Ah, good, another TLOU thread.
And no, sorry humanity. I won't pretend I care about my "human responsibility" even for an online poll.
I'd trade billions of your lives for my kids' with no second thoughts or regrets whatsoever.
Besides, I don't think the planet could handle all the people I'd save. But that's beyond the point and not at all what motivates the choice.
Now if it's my own life we'd be trading yeah maybe. Loved ones', lol, no.
And no, sorry humanity. I won't pretend I care about my "human responsibility" even for an online poll.
I'd trade billions of your lives for my kids' with no second thoughts or regrets whatsoever.
Besides, I don't think the planet could handle all the people I'd save. But that's beyond the point and not at all what motivates the choice.
Now if it's my own life we'd be trading yeah maybe. Loved ones', lol, no.
Now imagine the guy that does it has a profound love for all humanity. We are all his/her loved ones.
What an awful line especially coming from a soldier. Sounded like something out of a shonen manga.
That's different, I think more people are willing to sacrifice themselves, instead of their loved ones
I'm actually surprised more people are saying they would sacrifice their loved ones. You are basically asking to save faceless billions, and sacrificing your loved ones, while you are still alive.
I'd rather die than sacrifice my wife and kids. I
Faceless billions who have faces and wives and kids and untold loved ones that die daily, every minute, tragically from desease. I'd rather die than sacrifice my loved ones as well, that isnt the choice though.
How can you eradicate a disease retroactively and not bring people back to life?
Given how vague "Your loved ones disappear" is? Nah. That whole deal is its own existential question.
"You don't kill your loved ones... they just never were. Presumably, though, you're still standing at the end of this precisely where you are now. Their actions remain." I... what did I just do to my loved ones? That's so much more ominous than just killing them, and I wouldn't kill them to get power, so why would I do this to get power? If they're not dead, but they're not anywhere on earth... are they alone? Are they safe? Do they miss me?
If you wrote this in a more "fantasy" way than a "sci-fi" way, like "You can heal any disease, but in the process you will be fated to never see or interact with your loved ones ever again," that would at least answer more questions and be a more pertinent moral question. "But you lose your loved ones and they are no more but they don't die" is just... like... nightmarish to contemplate.
"You don't kill your loved ones... they just never were. Presumably, though, you're still standing at the end of this precisely where you are now. Their actions remain." I... what did I just do to my loved ones? That's so much more ominous than just killing them, and I wouldn't kill them to get power, so why would I do this to get power? If they're not dead, but they're not anywhere on earth... are they alone? Are they safe? Do they miss me?
If you wrote this in a more "fantasy" way than a "sci-fi" way, like "You can heal any disease, but in the process you will be fated to never see or interact with your loved ones ever again," that would at least answer more questions and be a more pertinent moral question. "But you lose your loved ones and they are no more but they don't die" is just... like... nightmarish to contemplate.
If that was the choice then I'd do it. But it's not, I would never sacrifice my children. Ever.
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Because the people who had it don't have it anymore? Like, I'm not sure how else to explain this.
If the person is already deceased, their bodies are not active. They're dead, jim.
I think that's the normal choice as well. We are generally hardwired to empathize/love that way
Edit: well that and a love for booty
This quote by Montesquieu comes to mind. Basically, if your goal is to do the most virtuous and right thing, then perhaps you have already failed by having loved ones to begin with, whom you give preference to in how you treat them over others every single day.
The only way to win.
That's not retroactively then, it's just curing everyone of the disease they have.
Muddying your own water here Bones.
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Unreciprocated love isn't real, and this hermit is a real dump face.
No. No more Thor 2: The Fucking Dark World. You are banished to the realm of tired jokes--all expenses paid (so don't stress out) courtesy of Dr Pleb and the Interstellar Bubble of Anguish--for the period of two bannings. Seeing as you're unfamiliar with the concept...it's actually not that long.
Inscrutable as always, Dr Pleb is actually
working on a new dance craze
No. No more Thor 2: The Fucking Dark World. You are banished to the realm of tired jokes--all expenses paid (so don't stress out) courtesy of Dr Pleb and the Interstellar Bubble of Anguish--for the period of two bannings. Seeing as you're unfamiliar with the concept...it's actually not that long.
Inscrutable as always, Dr Pleb is actually
working on a new dance craze
I change my choice:
Thor 2: The Dark World 2: Ragnarok
I don't think I could vanish my children no.
If I vanished along with them I'd be more likely to say yes I think.
If I vanished along with them I'd be more likely to say yes I think.
Counteroffer: Four mods (no BronsonLee or Slayven) and one RedMercury. You'd do it.
Huh? Sacrifice them?
Nah my choice is still Thor 2: The Dark World 2: Ragnarok
I whould take away my own disease, which whould also help my closest friend, so losing my family is a low price to pay.
Me and my friends and many other whould live longer instead of dying earlier and making our families suffer
Me and my friends and many other whould live longer instead of dying earlier and making our families suffer
After losing my Mum in January to illness and knowing how much that hurt, I'd wait until all my family were gone then hit the switch.
I like to think I'm a globalist and try to put humanitys needs before my own, but without my family I am nothing. Not only that, but is curing all disease really good for us? It's sad, but diseases control the population and if the population gets out of control at this current time humanity is all going to die anyway.
I like to think I'm a globalist and try to put humanitys needs before my own, but without my family I am nothing. Not only that, but is curing all disease really good for us? It's sad, but diseases control the population and if the population gets out of control at this current time humanity is all going to die anyway.
Umm your friends would die. Because I assume you "love" them
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No solutions come without problems of their own. What happens when people have hugely inflated life expectancies, but are still too old to work? Even without the need for doctors to fight illnesses, we'd still have accidents. We'd consume huge amounts of resources and hurtle even faster towards a climate change crisis.
I think you could write an entire thesis on a world without disease.
I think you could write an entire thesis on a world without disease.
He came back in the very next movie
So that's my choice:
Wipe out my friends and loved ones and then travel to the Genesis realm and get them back.... Thus no sickness and everyone I love lives.
And the ship i use to get there? The USS Thor 2: The Dark World 2: Ragnarok