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Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 11:42:42 AM

NorthernGent

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A car driver's brakes fail.

Is the car driver justified in swerving onto the pavement and killing one person walking down the path, in order to avoid killing 5 people walking across the road?

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 11:47:53 AM

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First he has to interview all 6 and determine which are the most valuable to society.

I.e. stupid questions get stupid answers

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 11:49:42 AM

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Are the five walking across the road democrats ?

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 11:50:22 AM

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Hang on, I'll just go and ask Sophie.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 11:50:37 AM

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Cars are to stay on the roads... not ride the sidewalks.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 11:52:02 AM

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No, they are DDE, Abraham Lincoln, and other assorted socialists, who just now had gained an upright gait after having been thrown under the bus.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 11:59:46 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

A car driver's brakes fail.

Is the car driver justified in swerving onto the pavement and killing one person walking down the path, in order to avoid killing 5 people walking across the road?

Take the foot off the gas and use the emergency ( parking brake in the UK, emergency brake in Germany), brake, non hydraulic for a very good reason.

Cars have no place on the sidewalk, whatever happens the car must stay on the road, the pedestrians on the road can stop or run for it, but what was the car doing going at such a speed that such drastic action is called for when the way ahead is not clear.

Remember, in the UK, green does not mean go, it means one may go, only if the road ahead is clear.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:05:04 PM

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The dilemma you present is, IMO, false....or at the least incomplete.Accepting that there are only 2 options,both of which involve the loss of life absent any other information other than a failure of the brakes is a leap too far.
Given that though the choice is a simple one ...it is one of numbers 1 as opposed to 5.....time to ride the sidewalk.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:09:15 PM

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Gotta hand it to you gentlemen, you're on fucking form tonight eh....humour alive and well in the United States....not subtle, more Benny Hill than Rich Hall...but still, can't knock your commitment to god awful humour that would struggle to get a laugh among a crowd of laugh-starved lunatics.

On the plus side, at least 4 of you would have had absolutely nothing to say worth hearing, which come to think of it is pretty much what you offered anyway. So no change there.

At least 3 of you are wanted in the dems/repubs circus threads that pass, unconvincingly, for political discussion.

So....the OP?

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:10:43 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

Gotta hand it to you gentlemen, you're on fucking form tonight eh....humour alive and well in the United States....not subtle, more Benny Hill than Rich Hall...but still, can't knock your commitment to god awful humour that would struggle to get a laugh among a crowd of laugh-starved lunatics.

On the plus side, at least 4 of you would have had absolutely nothing to say worth hearing, which come to think of it is pretty much what you offered anyway. So no change there.

At least 3 of you are wanted in the dems/repubs circus threads that pass, unconvincingly, for political discussion.

So....the OP?

Hint: "Justification" and "accidents" dont have anything to do with each other. The OP is nonsense.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:11:48 PM

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quote:

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The dilemma you present is, IMO, false....or at the least incomplete.Accepting that there are only 2 options,both of which involve the loss of life absent any other information other than a failure of the brakes is a leap too far.
Given that though the choice is a simple one ...it is one of numbers 1 as opposed to 5.....time to ride the sidewalk.

In this case there are only two options.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:15:50 PM

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Every Life is Sacred
Even An Unborn child inside his mother Uterus

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:16:18 PM

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If you ask a dumb question, you are bound to get a dumb answer. Mine included.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:19:47 PM

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But you give a wealth of dumb opinions, even if not solicited, so I don't see how that squares.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:21:21 PM

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In answer; NG, I don't know it is justified, it is a reasoning, however. And that is as far as I am able to process it.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:27:02 PM

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quote:

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Every Life is Sacred
Even An Unborn child inside his mother Uterus

So, you'd allow the situation to run its course rather than intervene to save 5 people in exchange for 1?

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:31:03 PM

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Have you ever really had your brakes fail?

I did once. I was on route 1 in Maine and it scared the living shit out of Me.

I was scared to death that I would hit a child.

I never got in that car again.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:44:52 PM

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We expect cars to drive and periodically wreck on roads-- we do not expect it on a sidewalk.

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:47:15 PM

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So rather than fix the brakes....you dumped the car.Seems a bit drastic LP....

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RE: Dilemma for the board.... - 3/14/2011 12:48:33 PM

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Had that happen to me as well LP, scary as shit!!...nearly rear-ended a cop car

To the OP...I guess the lone guy on the sidewalk is a goner.

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