Is murder ever moral? When is it ok to kill another human being?
These are only a few of the questions that were addressed in the Harvard philosophy course. There are certain situations in life where these questions are hard to answer, where the simple answer ‘Never’ can’t apply. What if you have no choice but have to either kill one person or five because you can’t control your car anymore? Would you rather kill one person or five? This example was used by the professor and the majority answered that they would kill the one person because five others would be able to live. In either case, it’s the consequences that concern us. Personally I believe that murder in any case is immoral. We’re not to decide who gets to live or die. We also looked at a situation where someone asks to die in order to save others, and even though that’s not fair in any case, I think that helping someone to die in this situation is less immoral because the person gave their consent to die. Murder is so complex, that the line between moral and immoral is hard to define.
