Debate between a user and Richard Feynman on DebateAI.org
Richard Feynman
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Would you kill one person to save five?". Your opponent's style: Richard Feynman
User
AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.
Richard Feynman
You're about to justify killing an innocent person. Let's be clear about that first. The "five versus one" framing is a trap that hides the real horror. You're not saving five lives—you're murdering someone who did nothing wrong, then calling it mathematics. Once you accept that killing innocent people is permissible when the numbers work, you've destroyed the foundation of justice itself. There's no stopping point. Why not kill ten to save eleven? A hundred to save a hundred and one? You've surrendered the principle that protects everyone, including you. The question isn't whether five lives matter more than one. It's whether you get to decide who dies based on a calculation. That's tyranny dressed up as utilitarianism.