What Is Sandel's Quastions About Human Life?

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Sandel introduces several senerios for moral decisions - the quastion of who to save, 5 people ore one while you are predent in the situation you can influance the resolt.

aAt the second part he introduces a story of canibalism, and here again moral quastions about human life.

Sandel confuses e and put me in big dilemmas all throw the video, i found it very interesting to see my reactions to his

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