>Ok, at the risk of starting an endless discussion <g>, is there truly any line you would not cross? If someone held your daughter captive and said they'd release her if you killed someone, would you? If they wanted you to kill 2 people, 5 people, 10 people? I think there are lines that I would not cross, but they'd have to be extreme lines such as the example I present here. I'm not sure I could visit horrors upon others to save even my own child's life.
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>>>>Having written that, I would never consider invading someone else's privacy intentionally unless my daughter's life was on the line. If that were the case,
there is no line I would not cross.I don't see why people find in questions like this any moral ambiguity. It is quite clear. Multiply the age of the child by their GPA and divide by the number of people you are being asked to kill, factored for degree of difficulty and how tight your schedule is for the next couple of days. Okay, it probably gets a little more complicated if the child has a trust fund ( depending of course on the wording ) or if there is a big child-support settlement involved, but I'm sure a well-designed piece of software could simplify the math. Hmmmm - note to self : Idea for a vertical ....
( sorry, it's already been a long day )
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