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To: TornadoAlley3

How time and value have changed.

Just about a century ago, the captain of the Titanic had to make difficult decisions too. Amazingly, the weak and the most vulnerable weren’t left on board to perish. Was the captain wrong? Would he make the same decision today? Just wondering. Afterall, we still call him a hero.


27 posted on 04/26/2009 1:36:34 AM PDT by m4629
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To: m4629
BINGO. Our compassion is what separates us from the animals.

Honestly, I think that this is the socialist government's reaction to their own broken system. They cripple *everything* about our economy then decide to make the "hard decisions" (killing everyone but THEM) so that we can afford their evil version of "utopia".

34 posted on 04/26/2009 1:57:18 AM PDT by Marie ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: m4629
Just about a century ago, the captain of the Titanic had to make difficult decisions too. Amazingly, the weak and the most vulnerable weren’t left on board to perish.

Those who had the most to contribute to society's future were saved-- i.e. children, their mothers, and other women who might bear children in the future. Weak, vulnerable, elderly men were left to go down with the ship.

It's also not directly comparable because what happened to the Titanic did not affect societal integrity as a whole. However, if doctors across the country chose to let healthy young men and women die in a pandemic so they could save the nursing home patients, retarded children, elderly multi-drug dependent cardiac cripples, and lunatics, who would rebuild civilization and look after all the others?

It sounds cruel and callous to let such helpless people die, but it is morally right and necessary in the case of a dire emergency.

-ccm

37 posted on 04/26/2009 2:01:28 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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The Captain of the Titanic simply didn’t have the same situation. He wasn’t a doctor for one thing. He didn’t have a mess of sick an dying people. They were all quite healthy (until, of course, they fell into the water and froze or drowned).


127 posted on 04/26/2009 2:01:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: m4629
Amazingly, the weak and the most vulnerable weren’t left on board to perish.

Uh huh. So why is it that more First Class men survived than Third Class children?

232 posted on 04/27/2009 9:46:08 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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