<center><i>Day Three</i></center>\n\nEveryone decided against the random selection proposal, since no one like a chance of being selected. As the days go by, the situation gets worse and worse. One of your family members, your mother, tells you that she is willing to die in order to save you and the family. She has asked you to sacrifice her. \n\nWhat should you [[do|dDayThree]]?
Do you emotions and your revulsion at having to eat another person matter ethically? This question is resolved differently by different philosophers.\n\n[[back|rescue]]
Would it bother you or disgust you to kill your mother, cut her up, and eat her as a meal? \n\nIs it morally wrong for you to kill your mother, cut her up, and eat her as a meal, since you have after all [[obtained]] her willing consent?\n\nShould you be prioritizing your love for your mother over the sake of everyone’s survival? Remember 6 lives could be saved. \n\nThe decision is in your hands.\n\nWill you agree to kill and eat her?\n[[Yes|yDayThree]] or [[no|nDayThree]]?
You have decided to kill and eat your mother, having obtained her consent.\n\nDid you do the right thing?\nHow do you [[feel|rescue]]?
You and your family went on vacation on a cruise. Unfortunately, your cruise ship crashed. Your family (your mother and your daughter), another family (two parents and a kid), and a cabin boy are lucky and got on to a lifeboat together. There are only few cans of food. After 15 days on the lifeboat, all food is gone and there is not any fresh water left. \n\nWhat on earth are you going to [[do]] to <b>survive</b>?
The person who was selected is the cabin boy, on the boat with you.\n\nYou watch while they kill and eat him.\n\nWill you be able to eat him? Will you be able to stomach it?\n\nDo you think that you did the right thing?\n\n[[Continue.|rescue2]]
You have decided to kill the weakest person on the lifeboat. \n\nIt was one of the children of the other family, who was young and sickly.\n\nAfter you finish eating her and throw the remains off the boat, a deep silence pervades the [[boat|rescue]].
<center><i>Day Four</i></center>\n\nSuddenly, you faint. When you wake up, the lifeboat has landed on an island. Another family is feeding you grilled meat. You realize that everyoneis there, except for your mother. You were told that she didn’t make it due to the heat and passed away. So they are able to make the meal. \n\nKnowing that the grilled meat (prepared by someone else) is probably from you mother, who did not survive. Would you eat it if it is the only way to survive?\n\nWhat should you [[do|dDayFour]]?
PHIL 106\n\nto eat or not to eat
If you kill this person after obtaining everyone's consent to a random selection process with the idea of impartiality, do you violate their rights? Are you morally excused because the rest of you need to survive, and you did your best to be fair?\n\n\nWill you agree to the random selection system?\n [[YES|yDayTwo]] / [[NO|nDayTwo]]\n\n
You are rescued by the coast guard several days later.\n\nThe press goes crazy over reports of cannibalism.\n\nThe mother from the other family goes missing several weeks later, unable to cope with the notoriety stemming from this incident.\n\nHow do you [[feel]]?\nDid you do the [[right thing]]?\nAccording to [[who]]?\n\n<center><b>END</b></center>
<center><i>Day One</i></center>\n\nYou know that if you do nothing, EVERYONE will die from dehydration and starvation. In total, 7 lives will be ended. You and your companions on the boat begin to realize that the only food available on the lifeboat is each other.\n\nWill you murder the weakest person on the boat, and serve them as food to save the rest of the 6 people on the boat? \n\nWhat is your [[decision|dDayOne]]?
Is anyone harmed by the fact that you are eating your mother? \n\nThe piece of grilled meat looks, smells, and would taste exactlly like pork. Would it disgust you to eat this piece of meat?\n\nIs it morally wrong to eat your mother, who has passed away? How is it different than killing her in order to eat her?\n\nHow do you feel about eating her body?\n\n\nWill you eat the grilled meat?\n[[Yes|yDayFour]] or [[no|nDayFour]]?
You are rescued by the coast guard several days later.\n\nThe press goes crazy over reports of cannibalism.\n\nThe cabin boy goes missing several weeks later, unable to cope with the notoriety stemming from this incident.\n\nHow do you [[feel]]?\nDid you do the [[right thing]]?\nAccording to [[who]]?\n\n<center><b>END</b></center>
Who is the weakest? \n\nSomeone who is the sickest? \nSomeone who is an orphan and doesn't have many friends? \nSomeone who is a criminal repeat offender (if survived, would generate negative utilities to the world)? \n\nWho decides who is the weakest? \nDoes the weakest member have any say in this?\n\n[[back|dDayOne]]
An important question in ethical debates is: who gets to decide what is right or wrong?\n\n[[back|rescue]]
Are you maximizing total [[happiness|utilities]] by killing one to save six? \nIs it the right thing to kill the [[weakest|weakness]] person in order to allow six others to live?\nWould you be able to eat their flesh?\nWhat about the [[victim|rights]]? \n\nWould you do it? [[YES|yDayOne]] / [[NO|nDayOne]]
Is saving six lives worth sacrificing one life?\nIs seven deaths, when no one survives, worse than one death that is a sacrifice?\n \n\n[[back|dDayOne]]
<center><i>Day Two</i></center>\n\nInstead of murdering the weakest, the father of the other family proposes a random selection process. The person who is randomly selected will be killed and served as food to save the rest of 6 people on the boat.\n\nWhat will you [[do|dDayTwo]]?
<center><i>Day Five</i></center>\n\nYou will starve to death, and no longer able to protect your daughter. Because of this, your daughter will become helpless and be eaten by someone else on the lifeboat.\n\nYou could have protected her if you weren't starve to death, but you choose not to eat the grilled meat. \n\nDo you feel you have made the morally right choice?\nWhat about the emotionally right one?\n\n<center><b>END</b></center>
Lauren Futami\nJamilah Lewis-Horton\nChloe Man\nGrace Owen
You survived, and the majority of the people involved survived, but not without consequences. Whose happiness matters most?\n\n[[back|rescue]]
Does it matter that she gave the permission freely, rather than being asked or coerced?\n\n[[back|dDayThree]]
Does the weakest person have rights to live in this situation? Is it morally acceptable to infringe on those rights?\n\nKant states that every human being must be treated as an end rather than as a mere means to an end. \nAre you using the weakest person as tool to survive? \nAre you treating the weakest person as a mere means? \n\n[[back|dDayOne]]
You have decided to kill and eat a randomly selected person on the lifeboat in order to ensure that the others will live.\n\n[[Proceed|yDayTwo ptTwo]] with the randomization of the victim.
You have agreed to eat the grilled meat, the dead body of your mother.\n\n[[Continue|rescue]]