The Right to Life?

[MarcusA]

To save a child's life, you leave its mother to rot. Do you?

[No one]

Just eat them both.

[MarcusA]

Problem solved. Erase all traces of both.

[No one]

Follow me for more pearls of wisdom.

[MarcusA]

The blind leading the blind.

[No one]

What a sight it would be.

[Tank]

Am I the only one wondering if MarcusA is a sock puppet of No One?

[No one]

Yes!

[billy rubin]

lol

[Ecurb Noselrub]

He could not possibly be a sock puppet of No One. No One does not have any exhibitionist tendencies, so I doubt he could even invent or fake MarcusA. MarcusA's posts could all be boiled down to three words: "Look at me!" But I say this with all love and respect, not casting aspersions or throwing stones. Just an observation.

[billy rubin]

marcus is a churning pot of introspection. and poetry

[MarcusA]

We have a right to liberty, not life. No-one is so precious as to demand life.

[billy rubin]

i disagree. if rights do exist, and for the moment i assert they do, then the right to left alone is preeminent.

to clarify, you have a right not to be murdered. but noone is obligated to save yuou.

[Asmodean]

Am I the only one wondering if MarcusA is a sock puppet of No One?

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To save a child's life, you leave its mother to rot. Do you?

Ooh... This is a complex one, indeed. Would I sacrifice a mother to save her child? I suppose situationally, I might.

I think... Hmm... Yes, I think that this can be boiled down to a personal property question. Whose (in terms of ownership) are the lives to forfeit - or not? May they delegate that decision? Under what, if any, circumstances may a third party interfere?

In the society I live in (for that matter, your wider society as well) a person does indeed have the right to live. It is not a blanket right, however. It protects you from certain events, but not others. The examples "in-breach-but-not" of said right may involve soldiers at war, people in palliative/end of life care, variations of the trolley problem (which you present here) and the like.

So... You have the right to live. That does not mean that you will, or that any breach of said right is either remediable or attributable to malice.

[billy rubin]

what is a "right?"

under what authority is it granted or abrogated?