The whole "what would you do, if...?" conundrums mystify me-although I would lean towards choices that result in the least amount of loss. We live in a world of "Easy for you to say it's alright to kill one person, instead of five, if you're not the family member losing that one!" In reality, there is always, as Thomas Sowell says, a tradeoff. Each of us gives up something, in order to gain something else. I chose to get married, sire and raise a child and to not sire or raise a second child, due to the effect the first birth had on the woman I married. I thus chose to not live the life of a dilettante, running about the planet and engaging in mischief. I also chose to not settle into a community and live the quiet life of a bachelor. There are a thousand choices and tradeoffs, big and small, that we make every day. None are good or bad, in the larger schem of things. They are only good or bad in our own sphere of living.
The whole "what would you do, if...?" conundrums mystify me-although I would lean towards choices that result in the least amount of loss. We live in a world of "Easy for you to say it's alright to kill one person, instead of five, if you're not the family member losing that one!" In reality, there is always, as Thomas Sowell says, a tradeoff. Each of us gives up something, in order to gain something else. I chose to get married, sire and raise a child and to not sire or raise a second child, due to the effect the first birth had on the woman I married. I thus chose to not live the life of a dilettante, running about the planet and engaging in mischief. I also chose to not settle into a community and live the quiet life of a bachelor. There are a thousand choices and tradeoffs, big and small, that we make every day. None are good or bad, in the larger schem of things. They are only good or bad in our own sphere of living.