What would give one the right to decide who should live and who should die?
It seems to me that there is a fundamental difference between this and the
terrorist example, as the terrorist is actually intending to kill people,
whereas in this case, everyone is just trying to survive.

Sean

At 02:38 PM 9/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I think there was an arctic expedition that had just this problem.  The
>Commander (Greeley?) insisted on dividing supplies absolutely equally.
>As a result almost all of them died shortly before rescue.
>
>Sherpa Doug
>
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