Hypothetically speaking, if your death would save the life of one or more complete strangers that you know nothing about, how many people would need to be saved (if any) in order for you to give up your own life?

EDIT: Your death would be painless and instantaneous.

  • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    So is the question how many it would take for me to believe that I should give my life, or how many before I’d actually have the willpower to choose to die?

      • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I hope you’re just looking for interesting responses rather than a definite answer!

        I genuinely wonder if saving a negative number of people would be better overall. Humans, especially ones in developed countries like those privileged enough to be posting about stuff like this are responsible for a lot of negative effects we don’t really like to think about. We benefit from exploiting other people, animals, using resources in unsustainable ways.

        I think even if someone takes a lot of individual steps like going vegan, trying to recycle, minimizing transportation and other consumption, not having children, etc that they’re still not even going to break even with the harmful effects just existing causes.

        If it wasn’t for effects like that I’d probably say 2-3 but in reality I’m not really sure if I truly should save anyone. (By the way, you don’t have to worry about me going out and murdering people.)