The Moral Scenario

Bleach

Two of your loved ones are dying in the hospital of a rare blood disease. They have four months to live if they go untreated. There is a cure, but it is completely new and extremely expensive. It will cost 100,000$ a person to cure them. You do not have this money, howvever a massive drug dealing contact from college offers you a proposition. You are to sell 1,000 packages of cocaine, resulting in the 200,000 dollar profit you need. However, some packages have been cut wrong and 1 in every 100 of the people who buy it will die at random.

Do you take the offer or sacrifice your loved ones?
 
If I don't get caught, yes, absolutely. I can live with the guilt of having killed an anonymous stranger, but not with the guilt and loss of killing two of my loved ones, even if it was only through omission of action.
 
yes.
i am assuming that i do not know of the mistake, and thusly, do not know that there is a 1% chance that the person i sell it to will die.
if i do know of the mistake, i still would sell the cocaine, because i have no feeligs for my clients, but by doing it, will save two people whom i love.
 
No way.

I mean, I'd find another way to get the money. It wouldnt be hard.

If there was no alternative, I'm pretty sure I still wouldnt do it. I know people who have died, I'm not gonna start killing people just to satisfy my own desires..

If it was, one person would die from the cocaine, then it is sort of a more interesting question, but I'm pretty sure I still wouldnt do it.

Have a nice day.
 
Eh, It would be a hard call to live with the deaths of 10 Coke addicts on your head, but it would be worse to live with the deaths of two friends.
 
I would try to find and alternative, but if there is none, i'd have to say yes. Even if I knew about it or not here's the way I see it:
1.Everyone has priorities, some people are more important than others, my loved ones are MUCH more important than strangers.
2.With the media today, you would have to be an idiot not to know the risk, so I will assume they are willing to take that risk. If they are stupid and aren't aware of the risks, I really wouldn't care anyway because I'm not too fond of stupid people anyway. (yeah I realize that makes me sound like a b-)
3.Killing (directly or in tis case indirectly) 10 people is NOTHING compared to the extent that I would go to save my friends/closer family mambers.

The variables:
If my loved ones were going to be alive but like a vegtable or severely handicapped, I would reconsider. For example, one of my best friends: Jessica's dream is to be a mother and a writer/artist, if she couldn't do these things, life wouldn't be much life for her, she'd probably rather be dead.
 
I'd shoot the cocaine dealer after talking with him and steal his wallet. I would do this with other drug dealers until I had enough money. If they had body guards I'd just decline and move on to the next dealer, it'd probably take a few dozen but dealers are idiots and carry a lot more cash than they should in a lot of cases.
 
Sure thing as long as there is no chance of me getting caught. My ass' well being > 2 loved ones > anonymous dead people.
 
I'd do it, but to offset the guilt of killing strangers I'd sample one in every hundred packages myself, so that I stand the same chances as everyone to live. Plus, I hear cocaine's quite buzzy.
 
Somehow, I don't think I could do it. Not only is there the risk of getting caught selling cocaine, but I don't think I could live with myself if I knew that I killed someone through faulty drugs. I would just find an alternative in order to help my loved ones.
 
Gimme those damn drugs.

1 in 100, 1,000 packages, so 10 deaths. I'd definitely sacrifice 10 random people to save the life of someone I loved dearly; if you say you wouldn't, I don't think you're looking at it rationally. Or, I should say, irrationally, because that's the mindset you have to approach this question with.
 
I would sell the cocaine, but not to save my loved ones, more to kill the ones buying drugs.

Maybe I could use those 200 dollars to buy more cut cocaine.

I don't know, you have to define "loved ones"; I do have some people I like, but not to actually save their life.
 
akuchi said:
If I don't get caught, yes, absolutely. I can live with the guilt of having killed an anonymous stranger, but not with the guilt and loss of killing two of my loved ones, even if it was only through omission of action.
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This sums up my opinion as well.
 
If you don't sell the bad cocaine, someone else will. Either the dealer will find someone else to sell it, or will sell it himself.
 
While you may not personally know the people you are killing with the cocaine, they will be somebody's "loved ones". For all you know they may have a spouse and children.

If you don't sell the bad cocaine, someone else will. Either the dealer will find someone else to sell it, or will sell it himself.
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If you don't stab somebody in the street, somebody else will. Does that make it acceptable?
 
Seriously, I'd do it. Like previous users have said, I'd rather save my 2 beloved friends, than 10 random coke users I've never met, who really don't deserve to live. So to speak.
 
josh-ua said:
If you don't sell the bad cocaine, someone else will. Either the dealer will find someone else to sell it, or will sell it himself.
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This is true, but that's like saying if I don't steal from large corporations someone else will anyway. You have a point, but it doesn't necessarily justify the wrong action.
 
Captain Falcon said:
While you may not personally know the people you are killing with the cocaine, they will be somebody's "loved ones". For all you know they may have a spouse and children.

If you don't stab somebody in the street, somebody else will. Does that make it acceptable?
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Oh well. You take a risk when you buy/use illicit drugs like cocaine. They chose to take that risk without caring that it could hurt their spouse/children.
 
The thing here, though, is that you're getting these drugs from a person you know in college, so you'll most likely be selling these drugs to others that go to your college (unless this is assuming you've already graduated and you're in like your 30s or something). Most likely, you'd be selling them to people you've seen before, and even if you haven't, you'd end up being their contact, the one who sells them drugs time and time again. You'd get to know these people, and all the while you'd know that ten of the group you're dealing to are going to die.

Personally, I don't think I'd be able to justify doing that. I guess it really depends on who is dying and what the circumstances are, but like Hip said, there are other ways to get money that aren't nearly as deadly (or illegal).

Also, you most likely wouldn't know if the drugs were cut wrong. Dealers, from my knowledge, aren't usually the people actually cutting the drugs, and why would the person who messed up in mixing them tell the dealer that he's going to lose 10 addicts (which equals a lot of cash over the next couple of years). The scenario is somewhat flawed.
 
If you don't stab somebody in the street, somebody else will. Does that make it acceptable?
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Thats different, the coke's already exists and will probably be taken by someone eventually whether you sell it or not. To be honest, I'd probably use that kind of think to make myself not feel guilty. I'd definitely try and find another way thought, and only do this as a last resort.
 
Yeah, and they chose to take the drugs.
I'm a regular drug user myself, but no shit there's risks involved.
I find it kinda funny how you're all assuming that someone who buys some coke is automatically an 'addict'.
I also find it kinda funny (read: abhorrent) how people itt are claiming that because someone is a recreational drug user, they don't deserve to live. Coke's not that bad for you, on occasion, neither is any drug. Moderation in everything.

A hell of a lot of drugs (and, I'd argue, cocaine is one of them) are less bad for you than alcohol. Just because something's illegal it does not make it bad. Grow up.
 
As much as I agree with akuchi's sentiment, I completely disagree with this line: "Coke's not that bad for you, on occasion, neither is any drug. Moderation in everything."

Some things are always bad for you, including many recreational drugs.

As for the scenario: I could pay some other way. If that fails, I could just inform the people "Hey, there is a 1% chance that you'll die.". The second solution isn't that good, but it's better than just saying "Oh yeah it's good!".
 
I would kill everyone on the planet including myself if it was the only way to save any of my brothers or my niece's lives.

Wouldn't for anybody else however.
 
I think I would go with Obi's suggestion. If I informed them that 1% of these would kill them and they took it, I feel absolutely no guilt. If they are fully aware of the risk they are taking, then it's not my responsibility if they take a botched one and die.

People would probably still be buying it regardless of that small risk, so I would still make enough money to pay for the cure.

Of course, that's as a last resort.
 
I would do it, maybe you would get lucky and sell two of the death packs to the same person, and therefore killing less.
 
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