News A Question About Ethics

[Ted Moen]

I think it's only an ethical decision in retrospect. Under intense stress people will fight, flight, or freeze. It's not a choice at that point. The lady was a fighter who did what she had to do to survive. Another mother might have froze with the baby crying, leaving it to someone else to silence the baby or for the enemy to find them. Another mother might have fled with or without the baby. It's all about what you are hard-wired to do in that kind of situation.

Ted

 

[sea]

I would not judge her.

 

[Girl3]

For each of us, our sins are only between God and us. No one else can judge.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

I agree Girl3.

 

[Oberons Wife]

On a similar vein, but I do not know if this is fiction or fact: A female Holocaust victim was childless, she had always wanted to be a mother. When the group was separated into two, it became apparent to her that the other group were going to be killed. A young child was alone in the other group and sobbing. She walks over to the child and stands with him, holding his hand to comfort him. She dies with him knowing what it is to be a mother.

 

[LilacFaerie]

Girl3, you brought up the M*A*S*H episode, and made me think of a similar "choice" in a Star Trek film where Spock gives his life uncapping the main power source of the ship to fix/restore warp speed so they can escape certain annihilation. (I'm a geek, yes, i know....LOL) and also I'm reminded of the movie Sophie's Choice.

Such horrific decisions to be made, but be made they must. I believe the baby's mother made the ethical decision.