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	<title>Comments on: Are There Unsolvable Moral Dilemmas?</title>
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		<title>By: ff42</title>
		<link>http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2011/02/15/are-there-unsolvable-moral-dilemmas/comment-page-1/#comment-2434</link>
		<dc:creator>ff42</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard these described as &#039;life boat&#039; scenarios and while great to think about (I&#039;m always doing &#039;what-ifs&#039;) just never really occur in real life.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have heard these described as &#8216;life boat&#8217; scenarios and while great to think about (I&#8217;m always doing &#8216;what-ifs&#8217;) just never really occur in real life.</p>
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		<title>By: Victor</title>
		<link>http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2011/02/15/are-there-unsolvable-moral-dilemmas/comment-page-1/#comment-2426</link>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every problem has a solution, but what would be the best solution?

Sometimes we need to look at tings from a wider perspective before we can make a choice, somethimes there is a third choice that we can take.

This is the way I would do it considering the entire choice depended on myself:

- I would go to neither one of my parents, if they divorced it was probably both their fault, and if I can make a choice to spend christmas with doesnt that mean I could spend christmas with friends or girlfriend?

- We dont really know the scenario here: is there nowhere to hang from? Is there a way to safely drop the woman so that you can both survive? I would try to hold on and try to lift her, considering I find the strenght to do so, but at least I wont die without trying.

- This seems to deal with themes of abortion, and here I stopped and had to think for a moment... The most morally correct course of action I can think off would be to have the maximun number of babys that you could survive giving birth to, and then give those that you cant keep to adoption. There could be a better answer but thats what I can think of.

- Considering this was my decision I would save as many as possible, again won&#039;t die without trying.

- Give it the injection, there is no need to torture him. Or actually have those who care for the baby make the choice, again, dont give up without trying.

- How about you help both women with something else than money? Like food or some clothes, or split the dollar and buy something to share with them, shurely it could not be that hard? This one is easy.

- Refuse to kill the woman and refuse to allow her to be tortured. Why would you be working for such cruel army anyway? Rambo time.

- Dont use the weapon. Try to negotiate peace to the other side, if it does not work threaten them with the weapon, use outsider support, if all else fails tell your scientists to develop a more presice weapon so you only have to kill the leader of the opposition.

The moral of the story: Never give up before trying.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every problem has a solution, but what would be the best solution?</p>
<p>Sometimes we need to look at tings from a wider perspective before we can make a choice, somethimes there is a third choice that we can take.</p>
<p>This is the way I would do it considering the entire choice depended on myself:</p>
<p>- I would go to neither one of my parents, if they divorced it was probably both their fault, and if I can make a choice to spend christmas with doesnt that mean I could spend christmas with friends or girlfriend?</p>
<p>- We dont really know the scenario here: is there nowhere to hang from? Is there a way to safely drop the woman so that you can both survive? I would try to hold on and try to lift her, considering I find the strenght to do so, but at least I wont die without trying.</p>
<p>- This seems to deal with themes of abortion, and here I stopped and had to think for a moment&#8230; The most morally correct course of action I can think off would be to have the maximun number of babys that you could survive giving birth to, and then give those that you cant keep to adoption. There could be a better answer but thats what I can think of.</p>
<p>- Considering this was my decision I would save as many as possible, again won&#8217;t die without trying.</p>
<p>- Give it the injection, there is no need to torture him. Or actually have those who care for the baby make the choice, again, dont give up without trying.</p>
<p>- How about you help both women with something else than money? Like food or some clothes, or split the dollar and buy something to share with them, shurely it could not be that hard? This one is easy.</p>
<p>- Refuse to kill the woman and refuse to allow her to be tortured. Why would you be working for such cruel army anyway? Rambo time.</p>
<p>- Dont use the weapon. Try to negotiate peace to the other side, if it does not work threaten them with the weapon, use outsider support, if all else fails tell your scientists to develop a more presice weapon so you only have to kill the leader of the opposition.</p>
<p>The moral of the story: Never give up before trying.</p>
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		<title>By: Clytia</title>
		<link>http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2011/02/15/are-there-unsolvable-moral-dilemmas/comment-page-1/#comment-2424</link>
		<dc:creator>Clytia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think there are unsolvable moral dilemmas. I think in some cases there is no right answer, just some answers that are less wrong than others, though that&#039;s not always easy (or even possible) to be sure about.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think there are unsolvable moral dilemmas. I think in some cases there is no right answer, just some answers that are less wrong than others, though that&#8217;s not always easy (or even possible) to be sure about.</p>
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