Which is a more important value and why?

Question

Privacy or the right to life?

Should the right to privacy ever be more important than human life? More specifically, should one persons right to privacy ever trump another person's right to life?

Answer 1

The general ethical answer is life.

Any other answer would involve some sort of situational ethics where people are entangled in some way such that a victim is guaranteed.

The most immediate example that comes to mind is journalists source possessing life and death information.

Answer 2

These are both prime examples of a interlocking question of truth. You see, its more of a value to determine what is most right for your presence in time. One's self is the determination of what value is equally greater. However there are many flaws beyond that perspective. All can tell you is that either one is positive or negative. Well, in this case they both balance out to be one equal factor. That factor is what you need to determine. When you can realize this, then your whole life is much more of a story than it was when a dilemma of thought was presenting a blockade to your determination. Think more for one than for many, and this my friend will show you that everything is to a connection in life.

Answer 3

Possibly, because you do not nessecerily know whether or not this person wants the "right" to life.

btw if you are trying to prove a "point" to someone you are arguing against, you are doing a very poor job.

Any answer you can get from a biased-worded question which says, "Could/should this ever happen, I am not explaining the situation here," and then use it to "prove" something, there is no "proof" unless the people you are polling know it all.

Answer 4

When abortion clinics are getting bombed.