[Buddha-l] Ethical Dilemmas

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 10-06-10 10:19, Dan Lusthaus schreef:
>>> You forgot to mention the man on the other track is the Buddha...
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> Joy's quip is the healthy beginning of the undoing of that sort of question.
> It's constructed to foster the assumption that this sort of ethics is
> quantifiable -- fewer dead is better. But what if the five people on the
> track have just left a home where they raped and killed all the occupants,
> while the one person on the other track is a scientist on the verge of
> discovering the cure for AIDS? Does the "equation" change?
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Perhaps it would be interesting to recall the story of Angulimala here. 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angulimala)

erik