I think if Spock had said "I need the crew to survive, I need you to survive, more than I want to live myself" we would not be having this argument. It would also have been more true.
Indeed. Harry Potter riffs on this theme in the final book, which came as a welcome surprise to me when I was reading the series with my kids. And the 'Four Oxford Philosophers' resisted precisely this as I wrote about on Only a Game.
I think if Spock had said "I need the crew to survive, I need you to survive, more than I want to live myself" we would not be having this argument. It would also have been more true.
Aye, although it would've lacked the drama of how it was delivered of course. But there's a real danger to this principle if it is taken rashly...
Agreed. I feel like almost every genocide has been predicated on, at root, this argument.
Indeed. Harry Potter riffs on this theme in the final book, which came as a welcome surprise to me when I was reading the series with my kids. And the 'Four Oxford Philosophers' resisted precisely this as I wrote about on Only a Game.