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I re-watched the 1998 disaster flick "Deep Impact" with the incomparable Morgan Freeman as President of the United States.
In the movie, a giant meteor approached Earth and the mission to deflect it failed.
The President chose a cadre of experts and then held a nation lottery for a million people who could be accommodated in shelter caves for two years and re-populate The Earth. The rest of the nation 300 + million people were left to die.
Spoiler Alert -- the disaster is averted and the population of the US is saved (except for a few million folks on the East Coast).
The ethical question is this. Would the national leaders have any right to govern the millions of people they left for dead when they decided to shelter from the disaster?
Would those who abandoned their fellow citizens to the meteor be entitled to retake their wealth and property when they emerged to find that the disaster didn't happen?
In the movie, a giant meteor approached Earth and the mission to deflect it failed.
The President chose a cadre of experts and then held a nation lottery for a million people who could be accommodated in shelter caves for two years and re-populate The Earth. The rest of the nation 300 + million people were left to die.
Spoiler Alert -- the disaster is averted and the population of the US is saved (except for a few million folks on the East Coast).
The ethical question is this. Would the national leaders have any right to govern the millions of people they left for dead when they decided to shelter from the disaster?
Would those who abandoned their fellow citizens to the meteor be entitled to retake their wealth and property when they emerged to find that the disaster didn't happen?