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Miles M.

Yordan

BSBA Marketing Management B 2nd Yr

GEC 107

Assignment 8

1. Imagine that you are involved in a shipwreck situation – a ship has started to sink in the
middle of the ocean. Eleven people have jumped into a life-boat that has been designed for a
maximum of ten people only, and the life-boat is also starting to sink. What should the
passengers do? Throw one person overboard and save ten lives? Or stick to the principle of
“do not kill”, which means that everybody will drown?
From a strategic standpoint, there must be at least some people that are strong enough to row
the boat. The boat is relatively large, too, so the group must be able to work together. This
means that strategically speaking, it would be wise to have people of roughly equivalent
strength in the same positions. This might make it imperative to have 25 men and 25 women,
finding folks who can row together in order to maximize the chances of everyone in the boat
making it home safely. It would not be smart to have all large, strong people, as this would seem
to make it less likely that the boat can make it to shore safely.

2. Imagine you are standing on a bridge over two narrow ravine search with train tracks at their
base and on right side of the trail tracks there is one person being tied up and the another has
five persons that have been tied who would you save?
I will choose the second one, he will die, but the five will be saved. (You can't opt to jump in
front of the tram yourself since you aren't big enough to stop it.) From a simple utilitarian point
of view, the dilemma is the same — do you sacrifice one life to save five? — and the answer is
the same: yes.

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