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One of the dilemmas included in the trolley problem: is it preferable to pull the lever to divert the runaway trolley onto the side track? The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics, psychology, and artificial intelligence involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number.
Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost all cultures, from the Hebrews to the Greeks and Romans (particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio), Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis) and from the Aztecs to the Yoruba. The religion of the ancient Egyptians forbade the sacrifice of animals other than sheep, bulls, calves, male calves and ...
Altruistic suicide is the sacrifice of one's life in order to save or benefit others, for the good of the group, or to preserve the traditions and honor of a society. It is always intentional. Benevolent suicide refers to the self-sacrifice of one's own life for the sake of the greater good. [1]
1024: Human sacrifice by volkhvy reported in Suzdal in Russia. [24] 1066: John Scotus (bishop of Mecklenburg) was sacrificed to Radegast, the god of hospitality. [25] 1071: Human sacrifice of women by volkhvy was reported in a Rostov village in Rus. [26] 11th century: Al-Bakri mentions sacrifice of servants during royal burial in Ghana. [20]
These two kinds of sacrifice do not obey the principle and not belongs to self-sacrifice. [4] Although there were many heroic events of self-sacrifice worth eulogizing, suicide terrorism, a violent type of self-sacrifice, has been more prevalent [clarification needed] in recent decades and drawing wide attention. An estimated 3,500 such ...
Yes, good point. The lead doesn't even mention that kind of sacrifice, like a personal commitment, exposing oneself to risk, being brave or even just reacting in the moment. The article lacks wider context. An example is at the moment people are making great sacrifices for the pandemic, through isolation, lockdowns, bans, abstinences, etc.
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure, spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in ...
The volunteer's dilemma is a game that models a situation in which each player can either make a small sacrifice that benefits everybody, or instead wait in hope of benefiting from someone else's sacrifice. One example is a scenario in which the electricity supply has failed for an entire neighborhood.