The Hypothetical Question - What is the Yardstick of Good or Bad?

in #busy6 years ago

Maybe it is just a free phrase to depict two entity, or it is a contradistinction between moral and immoral in conjugation with the law. This question remains juxtaposition among the philosophical postulation by different authors and writers. But examining this topic in this article won’t be a barrier or finality to the clash between them. Hence, let me give you a scenario of the bone of contention.

In this short excerpt, it requires that you figure out the good or the bad in the situation.
On the highway, an oncoming vehicle was approaching a valley where a factory is located. It is getting to the middle of the day when the workers are about retiring from work. That is, most workers are preparing to evacuate the building; on the other side of the road is an orphanage home where kids are raised. The dilemma occurred when the vehicle’s brake failed and the driver is on a cross road either to swing the vehicle into the factory or the orphanage home and kill those grown up workers since they are pretty old and about to die while saving those young lads in the orphanage home.

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Questions:

If the driver should run into the factory and kill those workers base on the intention that they are old folks, would that intention be justified?
What about if he thought that since those kids don’t have parents and they might probably worth nothing at the end and rush into the orphanage home saving labor forces who can determine the economy of a state, would that intention be justified as well?
Overall, what will be the moral justification and will it be good or bad to declare such actions moral?

Let me know in the comment box what you think about the juxtaposition of moral, what is good oppose to what is bad in your point of view putting into consideration this scenario. Remember all suggestions are subjective and open to criticism.

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Running the vehicle on either side can't be justified at all. There is no justification for killing any other human being. The overall situation is bad obviously. I tried hard to think of something good, but failed.

There is no justification for killing any other human being.

There are instances where taking someone's life is justified. Let me explain to you.
When the State find you guilty of a crime and the punishment is death.
• When the only available option for a patient on a sick bed is for the doctors to end his/her life.

Those are instances of justified killings but that is not the situation here.

I tried hard to think of something good, but failed.

Errm, perhaps do we say there's no standard or yardstick for good or bad?

Ohh yeah. I liked that justification explanation you made.👍 In a similar manner the yardstick for good and bad depends on the situation I think.

It is subjected to the evident in the circumstances.
Thank you

In my opinion Bad it is the driver, who had a broken car...
Thats my humble opinion...

But the broken car resulted into a broken situation that's beyond his power. Would you have him blamed for that?
In a nutshell, I'm saying his action wasn't deliberate or conscious.

I do not blame him.... But.... It does matter if he kill some worker or a orphanage kids, even if no was his fault.. he will be in jail anyways

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