> Treating lives as some fungible resource where the ends justify the means and whatever process results in the most living people at the end shouldn't be corre

> Treating lives as some fungible resource where the ends justify the means and whatever process results in the most living people at the end shouldn't be correct. This is a fundamental problem in ethics -- and like many such problems, there is no "right" answer. There is no reason it shouldn't be that way, and no reason it should.