
View Video first: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_sandel_what_s_the_right_thing_to_do.html
"thank you uncle Osama for telling me about the video"
it is a very interesting subject which i would love to hear or perhaps READ your comments and opinion on. i already posted the coment and i wrote:
first of all i would like to thank mr. Michael Sandel for his outstanding performance in this tough yet great argument. i couldn't -not for one second- be distracted from the video and my eyes were wide open on the screen.
as for the issue, i think that in all situations the decision was dependant on one man or let's say "mind" and this mind has lived years under certain circumstances that made up his sets of rights and wrongs which certainly varies from one society to another if not a house to another . it is not about outnumbering because racism, for instance, was built upon the hatred of thousands to a minority of only different skinned people. So is the number a reliable factor here?
The same applies to the "necessity demands" point of view. Who gets to decide what's necessary or not? Let's view the situations:
(1) the driver –unwilling to commit murder- gets to decide whether to kill 1 or 5 people in this tragic accident. Apparently, The value of one person is priceless to him because he –the driver- wants to survive. Otherwise he'd simply crash in between and save the 6. What makes his life worth a better chance than the one worker?
(2) The man on the bridge should NOT push the fat guy. Because the driver is the one who should decide. Getting involved in others decision may cause a worse consequence. What if he missed the car? he would have killed the fat man, the driver, and whoever was there to be dead. In politics we have tons of examples on how penetrating into a countries inner affairs would damage both societies.
(3) The tragic voyage. Even if the 17 yrs old sailor agreed to sacrifice himself to save the others it is not the right of anyone to take the life of a breathing human even when he's sick. The necessity here is justified only when they eat the flesh of the first man who dies among them. They wouldn't die all at the same time, would they?
(4) The doctor: if I was in this situation I would pick up the patients randomly because all of them have equal rights to be saved and survive. I'd let their bodies decide when to leave life.
(5) The organ donor: would the doctor donate his kidney if he's a positive donor to one of them? Would he do that to his daughter if she was the person lying down in peace next to his ER? I don't think so.
Again, I really enjoyed every split second of the lecture and I would want to be there whenever this issue is on :)
a reply from Colleen Steen:
ReplyDeleteAhhhhhhh..."the driver wants to survive"...good point. I think this is the first time I've seen that theory in this discussion...surprising! Could it be that the instinct to survive would over-ride other considerations? This is also the first time I've seen the idea to "crash in between and save all 6". That means the driver would make a conscious choice to threaten his/her own life rather than others? The plot thickens...way to expand the mind and heart Hessa:>)
انا ما شفت الفيديو لانه طويل
ReplyDeleteلما ارد البيت اشوفه انشالله
انا اقول كل واحد له مقياس خاص
قد يكون كمي وقد يكون وزني
فسائق السيارة لما يصدم 1 ويحافظ على 3 او اربعه فهذا مقياس كمي
لما يقرر يدعم واحد او اثنين او ثلاثه علشان يحظ نفسه فهذا مقياس وزني
فقيمة نفسه بالنسبة لها اهو أفضل من قيمة 5 أشخاص قد يكون بينهم ام لأيتام ومفكر وعبقري
وعلى هالأساس أتوقع يبني العقل ويقرر ما هو الضروري فعله وماهو غير ذلك
وغير الحياة ممكن نسقط هذا على فتاوى المشايخ
في ناس يفتون على الأدله ياهذا حلال وما غيره حرام وبس
في ناس يرجحون ويقيسون ويمكن تتغير فتواهم حسب المكان والزمان وحسب الضرورة
فسيدنا عمر بن الخطاب أسقط حد السرقة في أيام المجاعه
واتوقع اسناد الأمر لأصحاب الشأن العارفين فيه
يقرب القرار او العمل الضروري الى الصحّه
تحاتي
سعد
:)
أتمنى أكون فهمت الموضوع صح
:p
سيتم ايقاف البت في رأيك إلى ما بعد مشاهدة الفيديو ^_^
ReplyDeleteانزين قوليلي انا فاهم والا أخوره؟
ReplyDeleteبعدين طويل مادري متى اشوفه ، يبيلي وقت اكون فاضي
:)