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As the passenger on the boat of innocent citizens, I would not press, or encourage another member, to press the detonator. I believe that if any member on either ship were to press the detonator, it would be immoral, but would not speak to their character as an individual. The situation itself is an impossible question with no absolute right answer. If a person on the boat of innocent citizens were to press the detonation device, then that would no longer mean that that individual is innocent. One could argue that if that were to be the case, that “innocent” individual could have easily been deemed one of the members of the opposing ship full of criminals given the decision they made to massacre them, making them no more morally correct than the prisoners. As described in Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, “cultivating a virtuous character is something that happens by practice” (Dimmock & Fisher, 2017). According to Aristotle, a single choice may not define a person’s character, but rather a person must work towards a morally positive character and make choices to reflect that. Based on this theory, in this scenario, if a passenger on the boat of innocents were to choose to detonate the explosive device on the opposite ship, they could still be viewed as having a virtuous character despite having committed one vehemently, unvirtuous act. Comment on this post
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