Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"

PART ONE: THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER
If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? Thats the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning. After the majority of students votes for killing the one person in order to save the lives of five others, Sandel presents three similar moral conundrums—each one artfully designed to make the decision more difficult. As students stand up to defend their conflicting choices, it becomes clear that the assumptions behind our moral reasoning are often contradictory, and the question of what is right and what is wrong is not always black and white.

PART TWO: THE CASE FOR CANNIBALISM

Sandel introduces the principles of utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, with a famous nineteenth century legal case involving a shipwrecked crew of four. After nineteen days lost at sea, the captain decides to kill the weakest amongst them, the young cabin boy, so that the rest can feed on his blood and body to survive. The case sets up a classroom debate about the moral validity of utilitarianism—and its doctrine that the right thing to do is whatever produces "the greatest good for the greatest number."

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現在是討論公義的課堂 此課會由一個故事開始

假設你是一個貨車司機

你正以每小時六十公里的車速行駛

你看見有五個工人在路上

你正想停車的時候

發現剎車器壞了 你無法停車

你心想 壞透了 因為

如果你撞向那五個人

他們全部都會死

假設這是絕對的

所以你感到很絕望

直至你發現

在路的盡頭

有一條

向右的小徑

那邊只有一個工人

在那條路上

車的呔盤還能動

所以如果你想

你可以把車

向右轉

那一人會死

但其餘五人會平安無事

第一個問題

做什麼才是正確的

你應做什麼

來一場投票吧

有誰

認為應轉車子的方向

有誰認為不應轉

誰會直駛

覺得不應轉方向的 請不要放下手