Monday, October 20, 2008
Today In Class
Today in class we talked about professor Mazoue's question of how much money it would take to hit a button and end someone's life that he had kidnapped. This would be a completely innocent person, and we had the option of erasing this memory. Some people were able to name a price on how much money it would take for them to press a button. I'm not sure if i could actually do it though. I don't think any amount of money would convince me to kill someone innocent. Just because I won't remember that i killed them doesn't mean that they weren't killed.
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I don't think I could do it either. The short amount of time before I took the amnesia pill would be enough to cause me to extremely regret what I had done. And I feel that although you might not remember it, it would follow you somehow. Even if your conscious mind forgot it, your subconscious mind may retain some memory of it that represses itself and causes negative feelings or actions. So I'm pretty sure I wouldn't kill the innocent guy
Question, how could you be certain that this individual is completely innocent? For all you know it could of just been all a big misunderstanding. Then if you did push the button, you would have killed a man who was not only innocent, but was believed to be entirely guilty and a criminal.
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