[ SECRET POST #2780 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2780 ⌋

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Comments

[skippydelicious]

Ever notice that when people talk about making hard decisions, they always spring for the most personally convenient option? Just once I'd like to see someone take the hard decision to live with the consequences. Wait, that is what the "don't kill" heroes do. They don't take the most convenient way out, they live with the consequences with having a set of morals that means trying to rehab even the worst criminal scum, and also having to live in a society which trades off security for riskier lives.

[feotakahari]

I don't think it's a hard decision to stand back and not do something. When you're not doing something, it's incredibly easy to pretend there isn't blood on your hands. When you're doing something, you're often forced to admit that you've caused harm, and potentially even that you've made the wrong decision and you shouldn't have done anything after all.

In philosophy class, I learned about babies born with Down syndrome, many of whom have issues with their digestive tracts. Surgery to fix their digestive tracts can be relatively simple, insofar as surgery on an infant can ever be called "simple," but many parents don't want to have and raise children with Down syndrome. Hospitals are quite insistent on not killing, so they won't do anything to a baby with Down syndrome who has no digestive issues--but back in the '70s, they were quite willing to do nothing at all, and let an unwanted baby with Down syndrome and digestive issues die slowly in terribly pain. After all, they weren't killing the baby themselves, were they? (See "Active and Passive Euthanasia" by James Rachels.)

Obviously, this is a very different consideration than what we're talking about in this thread--a clear decision not to act when someone WILL be harmed, rather than not acting when someone MAY be harmed. And this certainly doesn't mean killing everyone who gets in your way, like some antiheroes do. But I do think there's a case to be made for pattern recognition when supervillains keep getting free and keep killing again.

[kribban]

Wow. I didn't want to know that. I can't believe there are people who would let their own children die if there was a chance to save them.

[(Anonymous)]

And now when you go in for your first prenatal visit after they ask you if you want to abort (they won't let you see the ultrasound or hear the heart beat if you are even considering it) they ask if you want your baby to be tested for Down Syndrome in the womb . . . so you can abort it then.

I've always said no, so I'm not sure how much this costs or if insurance pays for it. I'm also not sure what all it tests for, I just know that Down Syndrome is the major thing they test for.

Now, knowing the alternative, I see why they ask.

[(Anonymous)]

OP's point still stands, though. That's a decision that only involves them, while putting other people in danger, even though by being a hero, they should be considering that aspect too.

[(Anonymous)]

This. If I ever, EVER see someone use the phrase "make the hard decision" to mean anything, and I mean literally anything, other than killing people, then I'll start taking it seriously. Until then, it's just putting a macho face on an indefensible impulse.

[(Anonymous)]

This

They're projecting their own morals on what they think a hero should be like, instead of understanding the hero as they are written.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yes, this!

Why do some people think that the "hard decisions" are automatically the right ones, anyway?