From the 2 given examples below, Please apply St. Thomas Aquinas’s Christian Framework to solve these dilemmas.
1. Suppose you are on an island with a dying millionaire. With his final
words, he begs you for one final favor: “I’ve dedicated my whole life to baseball and for fifty years have gotten endless pleasure rooting for the New York Yankees. Now that I am dying, I want to give all my assets, $5 million, to the Yankees.” Pointing to a box containing money in large bills, he continues: “Would you take this money back to New York and give it to the Yankees’ owner so that he can buy better players?” You agree to carry out his wish, at which point a huge smile of relief and gratitude breaks out on his face as he expires in your arms. After traveling to New York, you see a newspaper advertisement placed by your favorite charity, World Hunger Relief Organization (whose integrity you do not doubt), pleading for $5 million to be used to save 100,000 people dying of starvation in Africa. Not only will the $5 million save their lives, but it will also purchase equipment and the kinds of fertilizers necessary to build a sustainable economy. Now you are in a dilemma between the billionaire’s dying wish and survival of 100,000 dying people. What should you do with the money?
2. Jim finds himself in the central square of a small South American town. Tied up against the wall are a row of twenty Indians, most terrified, a few defiant, in front of them several armed men in uniform. A heavy man in a sweat-stained khaki shirt turns out to be the captain in charge and, after a good deal of questioning of Jim which establishes that he got there by accident while on a botanical expedition, explains that the Indians are a random group of the inhabitants who, after recent acts of protest against the government, are just about to be killed to remind other possible protestors of the advantages of not protesting. However, since Jim is an honored visitor from another land, the captain is happy to offer him a guest’s privilege of killing one of the Indians himself. If Jim accepts, then as a special mark of the occasion, the other Indians will be let off. Of course, if Jim refuses, then there is no special occasion, and Pedro here will do what he was about to do when Jim arrived, and kill them all… The men against the wall and the other villagers understand the situation and are obviously begging him to accept. What should he do?
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