MGSC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Zero Dark Thirty
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Lecture 09 eye in the sky discussion. Utilitarian: greatest good for the greater number, acceptable to kill one person in order to save others. Trolley dilemma: moving train, two tracks, you can either make it go on 1 track - 5 ppl or switch the track & kill 1 person, power to choose. Chain of command: had to go through diff measures of authority. Objective was to capture the #4 & #5 wanted. Kept passing up the decision - passing the buck: no one wants the blame. Didn"t want to be the person to say yes. Didn"t want to lose the propoganda war: cared abt their image more than the girl, they would be identified with the decision to kill the girl, don"t see the ppl you save, not identified. Also had to fire the drone strike & deal w. death of girl.
