Frankly speaking, I think it's rather disturbing that Janeway goes through with killing Tuvix at the end. He makes an impassioned plea for his right to be, and I think he was correct. He did nothing wrong; he was a victim of circumstance and developed his own feelings for the people around him and tried to make himself useful however he could.
It's cold-blooded murder, and I think the doctor's refusal to help her makes that rather clear. That it was done purely for selfish reasons (We see that Tuvix can conduct himself well in official capacities) makes it so much worse.
This and a million times this.
It all comes down to the math.
One decision you get 2 people, the other decision you get 1 person. Maybe if the ship were overcrowded and Janeway needed to cut down on crew she had to feed she would have swung the other way.
Wow, you're saying this like it makes the whole thing right. By that logic countries which face the problems of overpopulation should just execute a percentage of their population.
Wow and you are saying that Tuvix's rights outweigh Tuvok's and Neelix's (not to mention Kes' and Tuvok's families.
That is really cold blooded to cause that much hurt to that many people for one amalgamated individual who wouldn't die anyway but simply be reduced to his original parts.
Brit
What rights?
Tuvix's rights weren't "outweighing" Tuvok's rights, or Neelix's rights. Tuvok and Neelix have no rights
because they are dead. They are gone.
They do not have a "right" to be resurrected. If they CAN be, then yeah, great, go for it. But bringing them back to life by destroying another sentient being... that's something that the UFP and Starfleet principles would be against, and it's something I would be against, personally. If THAT is what is required to bring them back to life, then it's too much. One must accept that they died, and move on.
As for the rights of Tuvok's family missing him, or Kes missing Neelix, or the rest of the crew wanting their friends back... sure it
sucks, but people do
die sometimes. Especially people living on starships traveling through space, with all the danger that entails in Trek.
Missing lost loved ones does not give you the right to murder someone. The suffering of Tuvok's family, Kes, etc. cannot compare to the suffering of the man who is
forced to give up his life against his will. Killing him is more wrong - by FAR - than forcing those others to continue to mourn the loss of Tuvok and Neelix.
The notion that
sparing rather than
killing Tuvix is the heartless decision is preposterous.
The notion that Tuvix "didn't die" at the end of the ep is even
more preposterous.
It all comes down to the math.
One decision you get 2 people, the other decision you get 1 person. Maybe if the ship were overcrowded and Janeway needed to cut down on crew she had to feed she would have swung the other way.
Wow, you're saying this like it makes the whole thing right. By that logic countries which face the problems of overpopulation should just execute a percentage of their population.
Well that's about the most hyperbolic leap I've seen on this bbs. One minute we're cutting an impossible fictional alien person into two people and the next thing.. it's Pol Pot! It's like turning Threshold into an abortion discussion, no unwanted children should have to be brought into this world.
It's far from being the most hyperbolic leap
I've seen on this BBS. Like FAR far, like I don't even have a measurement for it. But that aside...
You were arguing that the "simple math" of having two people around instead of one is paramount in deciding whether or not to end the life of a sentient being who doesn't want to die in order to bring back two people who already died. I think a moderately hyperbole-fueled analogy is more than warranted.
The needs of the many do not curtail the rights of the individual.
