Ethical dilemma polls thread

A mad scientist has hidden the cure to schizophrenia inside an innocent cat. The cure will disintegrate if left inside the cat for more than 5 minutes, but if removed it will be safe and can be replicated to cure everyone with schizophrenia. To get it out you will have to kill the poor cat. Would you do it?

  • Yes
  • No
  • I don’t know

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Suppose you decided to sacrifice the cat for the benefit of mankind. Who is to blame for the cat’s death?

  • Yourself
  • The mad scientist
  • Both
  • Neither
  • I don’t know

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Is it ever OK to make an animal suffer so that we can gain knowledge that will never benefit that animal or its species?

  • Yes
  • No
  • I don’t know

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If you want you can make your own polls in this thread or specify why you answered as you did. :slight_smile:

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I’ve considered this before, but with humans like in the movie Saw. I would get my nightly medicine for sure.

Is it a full moon? Things are getting a little far out here!

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a mod made this poll.

I better vote the right way…

lol lol just kidding

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How should a self driving car be programmed if it encounters an unavoidable accident?

  • To save the passengers
  • To save other people
  • Don’t know

0 voters

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That cat is so dead. Sorry buddy :heart:

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Maybe I will get a lot of hate for this but people>animals.

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Sorry, guys, if the cure to sz depends on me being willing and able to kill a cat, then it’s just not happening. I’m not capable of it.

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I am not capable of killing a cat or dog.
I’m sorry guys.
The cure would have to wait.

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yeah … I wouldn’t kill a cat either - but I eat freakin chicken and beef?! and they are soooooo tortured!!!

our meds ae tested on mice

if 'killing the cat will save all other humans an ANIIMALS and earth - then I would kill the cat. I think the cat will be willing too. damn it I would kill myself =)

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has anybody seen the videos of these farm animals?!

I was vegan for like a longtime - and now I eat everything - still can not decide how I feel about it.

Before this illness - I wouldn’t step on an insect too - you know

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If I saw with my own eyes how they slaughter farm animals like cows, calves, lamb etc… I would instantly turn into a vegan.
I can’t stand suffering of any kind.

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If I had to personally kill the cat I might not do it but the cure for sz is monumentous and that cat would be remembered by history forever.

I can’t believe I’m taking the poll so seriously hahaha

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might> really? I just can not - in any reality plane on any level. but you know… mistakes happen. LOL i am kidding.

I still mourn after my cat for rehomiing him during my psychosis .

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Whose mad here?
How’d that scientist hide the cure inside the cat? He didn’t.
It’s a trick, done by the dog community hoping we’d all dismantle our cats in the hopes we’d all feel bad afterwards and go to a shelter to adopt a dog.

I wouldn’t kill the kitty, my luck the cure would be recalled for being defective anyway.

I don’t kill any animal myself, that’s what the pretty Styrofoam in plastic wrap at the grocery store are for, the butcher kills the animals, not me. I’m afraid if it were up to me to kill an animal to eat it, I’d be a vegetarian…
…unless I was starving, Then game on chickies…here pollo, pollo.

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I like chicken. if we were talking of chickens, I couldn’t

Amen.

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yeah but for real =) Iwish I can go vegetarian again. I admire people who are vegan. I hope one day me too =)

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I’d rip that cat’s stomach out in no time.

Might even drink all the cure

Either way who else enjoys killing cats?

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I have a cat that I ADORE! He’s my baby. Having said that, I could euthanize a cat for the cure to SZ. The benefit outweighs the risk to me. I would make sure he didn’t suffer at all, but ya. People first.

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Lives are always lost for the good of man kind, I have never harmed any human or animals, but if it would save millions I would probably give up my own life as well as the cats

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I would make it look like an accident though…

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