In my philosophy class today the teacher posed a hypothetical situation in which a website was set up with two buttons. The first would kill the youngest person in the world, but would unlock the second which would end all global suffering. We were told to ignore the effects this would have on overpopulation, etc.
Within two minutes, the entire class was against me as I argued to push the buttons. I was told things like: "it's okay, you just have a less developed frontal lobe" and "you're a monster" and "I guess I'm just too good of a person to kill a child."
I wasn't given many convincing arguments, so I was wondering if the larger community agrees that I'm a monster / that I should kill myself.
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