What would you do?

[Beaker]

(05-17-2019, 02:50 PM)Lucidus Wrote: I rather enjoy examining moral dilemmas and thought experiments and came across these recently:


Moral Dilemma
If you think that killing innocent people is generally wrong, and had to pick from the following two options, which would you choose :

Kill an innocent person and have no memory of it for the rest of your life,
or not kill an innocent person but think you had for the rest of you life?

Would you be prosecuted for the death? If so that changes the consideration. It would be mental torture to be convicted for a crime you have no recollection of committing. Sitting in prison for life, or being executed for a crime you think you did not commit makes the first option far less appealing.