I disagree because to me that's like 2 people died, and there's a new person in the ship. Would you kill, say, Ensign Kim if that would bring back two other people? Would you let people kill your son if that would bring back two people you don't know? The math is sound, so why wouldn't you accept?
What I would do and what's the only correct choice can easily be two different things.
I hope we all understand that human beings aren't rational, and that we've all made thousands of "incorrect" choices in our lives.
Obviously, my emotional connection to a son would make it extremely hard to make the correct choice - but that doesn't mean the choice is wrong.
I'm talking about making the right choice under the given circumstances. Janeway is responsible for the people under her command - and she's the only one in the position to make that choice.
A leader should be able to set aside her personal feelings for the greater good, or so I would argue.
Changing the circumstances into killing random people to save others doesn't reflect the supposed dilemma in this case.
I would have to look at the circumstances - and there's no guarentee I could come up with the right answer in that case.
Tuvix was a different person, and Tuvok and Neelix basically died in a transporter accident, that's how I see it and that's why I disagree with the Captain's decision.
Which is fine? I mean if that's how you interpret the circumstances - then that's just how we differ.
But, if your son and daughter were merged into a stranger in a transporter accident - you wouldn't want to reverse that effect?
I have to say I call bullshit on that.
In my view, if death isn't permanent - then it's not death. So, I don't think of the transporter accident as something that's final - because they had the technology to reverse it.
Allowing malfunctioning technology to dictate the deaths of two people in favor of a new person sounds literally insane - in my opinion. I certainly wouldn't want to be subject to such ill leadership.
As I said, with all things being equal - two lives are better than one. In this particular case, all things WERE equal, because Tuvix was a combination of the two others.
Meaning, we don't have to consider if one of them was significantly younger and, as such, would potentially get more out of life - or any other similarly complicated factor.
That's what makes the decision so easy in my view - because the circumstances were very straightforward.
I don't think they could have made such a decision any easier if they tried. Again, I would have to say any other decision would be insane or incredibly cruel - in my view.
