Would you commit genocide to save your family?

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Ahh, you're the guy that won't call the coin flip.

Hell no.

What if the genocide was the killing of every member of your family's race?
For example, if your family was white and you chose to save them, then every other white person in the world would be wiped out. That would be funny in a perverse way, because then everywhere you went people would KNOW it was you.

Why not just opt for entire human race to be killed including yourself? No-one can pass judgement on you if everyone including you is dead.

Because killing everyone is considered less bad than killing just one part of the human race, for some reason.

That makes no arithmetic sense at all.

ruveyn

Well it's indiscriminate. By only condemning a race of people, you're harbouring power to declare who is "inferior" enough to deserve death. That seems like a worse thing to do.

In doing collective defense of our society we have the right to go after any parties who make war upon us or give aid or comfort to those who do. In the process there is going to be collateral damage. Collateral damage is unfortunate, but a necessary price to pay for the defense of one's social order or for personal self defense. To defend myself and my family I am willing to do any amount of killing that the task of self or family defense requires. If there is collateral damage against innocent parties, that is just plain unfortunate. The blame goes to those who attacked me and mine in the first place.

So my answer is: tough nuggies.

ruveyn

Personally I think selected genocide is not as bad as killing all of humanity, but only from a utilitarian perspective. From an absolute perspective, I'd consider them equally bad.