Re: Don't really know how to title this guy!
Hes also the poster child for a question they used to ask in ethics class.
If you took this guy, and a brain surgeon, astrophysisist, any respected profession, and had to decide between them, which one was to live, how would you make that decision. In other words, is the scientist/doctor, more entitled to live because of their accomplishments, and possibility that thsy might contribute a cure for cancer or what have.
I really pissed off the prof. when I told him that Id flip a coin. Why? "All men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rightss...etc". To choose the professor over the bum, would, in an absolute sense, violate his unalienable right to life, and his is just as guaranteed as the doctors. The only fair way is to give them equal chance.
This guys right to air is just as valuable as yours or mine.