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Originally Posted by Salvanas
Aye, like I said, it was an example situation.
So you believe that moral decisions should be taken over logical ones?
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What exactly is morality? And what is behaving logically? In nearly all cases, the moral choice is also the logical choice.
A life is a life, regardless of age. The moral and logical choice would be to save that which is most likely to survive.
I was a medic in the Army, and one of the basic things we learned was how to triage patients, that is, to separate them according to how serious their injuries were. The most serious cases are treated first, and those with minor injuries are treated later. Sometimes you get those who are "expectant", which means they are most likely to die, and other than getting something to ease their pain (if they are conscious enough to feel it) they are not treated at all.
Morality is simply an extension of logic. Those who reason otherwise tend to fall into relativism, where black and white become shades of gray, neither moral nor logical. Morality is built upon logic and principle, providing people with a belief system (or common sense) which governs their behavior in civilized society.