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Originally Posted by wehateporn
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He postulates, falsely, that we are always obligated to do whats moral. That isn't the case. Especially in utilitarianism. I, personally, have always adopted what I coined "life boat ethics." If you got off a sinking ship and you are in a life boat that seats 20 safely, and 10 people are swimming towards your boat, help them aboard. Once you are at capacity it now becomes moral to do what's immoral. If 20 people are trying to get in a raft already filled with 20 people, well, I'm justified morally and within the confines of my conscience to take the oars and start crowing people to save myself and others aboard. I'm pro choice, it's an inconvenient way to do what must be done sometimes. If there was a way to take the 15 week fetus out of the mothers womb and transplat into a baron one, I don't even think it would be a topic. So we are really just limited by science, not morals, nor what's right, wrong or gods law or mans law.
Duke