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>thousands of slaves People.

• corin_ 11y ago
  Agreed. But there's a potential moral debate to be had around the subject. Imagine if you were given this scenario: "x" people will be killed tomorrow, you can't change that. There are three options for which people will be killed, either "well-off", "in poverty" or "random". You can choose one of the three, if you don't make a choice then one of the three will be randomly picked and the deaths still occur. Would killing the people in poverty be better because you're wiping out more misery, would it be worse because you're letting financial state influence death? And as much as ethically we want to think that all people are equal, let's not forget that most armys would be willing to kill 10 opponents to save the life of 1 colleague, and taking the US as an example I suspect (could be wrong..) a poll of the US would see most people willing to kill 10 North Koreans to save the life of 1 American, without having any other information about the 11 people who might die.
  • sbjustin 11y ago
    I think you could use anyone as an example. It's always easier to ignore people you don't know than the people you do. I imagine most people would pick a family member over people they don't know.
• hnal943 11y ago
  It matters that they NK people are slaves to their government. Killing the people will not influence the government like it would in parts of the world with better morality.
• knowaveragejoe 11y ago
  Yes, also, it's probably in the millions in terms of number of people we'd consider to be living as slaves in NK.