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My wife and I rented a fairly new movie over the weekend...
"eye in the sky" starring Helen Mirren & Aaron Paul
Even though i liked the movie, i wanted this thread to discuss the gist of the movie, not the movie itself
My wife and I talked about the implication for 45 minutes after the film was over, and we still werent seeing eye to eye as it is
Here is the basic synopsis of the film and the question i want to pose to the board
You have a drone targeting a building, wherein sits the # 2, 4, and 5 most wanted people on the continent of Africa for war crimes and terrorists acts committed against the US, England and other assorted countries. In the building are also two suicide bombers who are at this moment being fitted with suicide vests that will kill innocent men, women, and children of some unknown number at some unknown place in the very near future.
There is a problem though. Calculations of the blast mean that you will also kill an 11 year old girl who is selling bread for her family just feet away from the building where all of this is going on unbeknownst to her. Just a lovely little girl who has never harmed anyone....
If you wait, the terrorists and bombers get away.....
If you pull the trigger, you murder a little girl....
What say you.....do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the ONE?
"eye in the sky" starring Helen Mirren & Aaron Paul
Even though i liked the movie, i wanted this thread to discuss the gist of the movie, not the movie itself
My wife and I talked about the implication for 45 minutes after the film was over, and we still werent seeing eye to eye as it is
Here is the basic synopsis of the film and the question i want to pose to the board
You have a drone targeting a building, wherein sits the # 2, 4, and 5 most wanted people on the continent of Africa for war crimes and terrorists acts committed against the US, England and other assorted countries. In the building are also two suicide bombers who are at this moment being fitted with suicide vests that will kill innocent men, women, and children of some unknown number at some unknown place in the very near future.
There is a problem though. Calculations of the blast mean that you will also kill an 11 year old girl who is selling bread for her family just feet away from the building where all of this is going on unbeknownst to her. Just a lovely little girl who has never harmed anyone....
If you wait, the terrorists and bombers get away.....
If you pull the trigger, you murder a little girl....
What say you.....do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the ONE?