Episode 256 - A Moral Dilemma

There’s a common moral dilemma brought up as a way to illustrate the complexity of situations. These dilemmas are often a version of sacrificing one for the many. If there was an army coming your way, and the leader of the army asked you to either sacrifice one of your friends or to be prepared to be destroyed. What’s the right response here? It’s perhaps easy to justify sacrificing the one to save the many… but is that the right response?

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This episode was inspired by an episode of The Walking Dead, which I am currently re-watching. It’s rather interesting because I watched most of that series when I was at University about 6-7 years ago. I enjoyed it then, but I now view it through different eyes. I see things now that I hadn’t seen before.

The reason that’s interesting is that that seems to be true for many good works of fiction. It remains the same on paper, but we have changed over the years. Can we really watch the same thing twice? Or is it just not possible because we are always changing and receiving information in different ways? That’s an interesting question to ponder.

Anyways, I digress.

There’s a dilemma in an episode similar to the one I described in the introduction. Rick, the leader, and his group are bunkered down in a prison escaping zombies. An army comes to destroy them led by a character known as the Governor.