Hello Escapists. Today me and my friend were having a discussion about the value of a human's life. So I asked him "You are the president of a country. Another country launches 2 nukes towards your country. One nuke is headed towards a city which has 1,000,000 civilians whereas the other one is heading towards your field army which has 4,000,000 soldiers. You can only shoot down one nuke. Which one do you shoot down ?"
Surprisingly he answered that he would stop the nuke going for the civilians, thus saving 1 million lives but leaving the 4 million soldiers to die. I answered the exact opposite saving the soldiers but he said that made no sense. His reason for picking the civilians was because he says that the soldiers would be willing to die for the civilians as the role of a soldier is to fight for the civilians and if the civilians die then there's no point. However, I said that it didn't matter that they were soldiers, they were still human lives and I said I didn't see the logic to forsake 4 million soldier lives for 1 million civilian lives. Also I said that if the soldiers die then who would protect the civilians. After that we kept going round in circles saying that the soldiers would willingly sacrifice themselves for the civilians and all that.
So who would you save, the soldiers or the civilians and why ?