FIGHT CLUB 10/29/15 Heavyweight champ Loftus versus Underdog Czelusniak, Who Wins?

Anna Czelusniak

Stance: "Don't flip the switch, 1 person lives 5 die", "let the majority die"

Points

• You don't know what that one person can offer. That person may be young and have a future versus older people who do not have as long to live
• It isn't moral to kill more people to save one life because that one life has equal value as the others
• You have to think about it from the perspective of the long-term, you have to consider their ages and health status
• If the 5 people were a family, none of the family would have to suffer from the loss of their other family members
• One person that you know versus if the other 5 people are strangers, the one person is more important because people die everyday that you don't know
• You don't know if the homeless people would amount to anything and they have the least to lose. 

Meghan Loftus

Stance: "Flip the switch, 1 dies 5 live", "Let the majority live"

Points

• Saving a higher number of people means statistically you're potentially saving somebody with more potential
• It is the morally right thing to do because you are saving more lives and is a selfless act that shows true dedication and compassion for others
• According to religion (the bible), God says it is the right thing to do
• If one man has three useful organs that three children need, along similar lines as stated above, it is moral and just because three lives would be saved that have a longer life to live
• Long-term "if the people aren't like, important, statistically they could live to have families that produce successful people."  
• Yet, if the family was to all die, the extended family would be left to mourn, the sorrow is unavoidable 
• That is a selfish way of looking at it because every life has value
• The person who dies would die an honorable and prideful death 
• If it were 5 homeless people with no job, no family, no house, etc., you should save them because this life-changing experience will motivate them to make something of their life because it is a gift that they would treasure forever.