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Is It Worth Sacrificing the Lives of 8 Soldiers to Save Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is one of the earliest American films I watched as a Chinese. When I first watched this movie as a teenager, I had a question mark on my mind:
Is It Worth Sacrificing the Lives of 8 Soldiers to Save Private Ryan?
And I even had a debate with my classmate. But I think I was a stupid boy with some unsaturated opinion back at that time.
Recently, I watched this movie again. Now as a more saturated man, I want to discuss it again.
It’s a Military Mission, not a Trolley problem
When someone compares Ryan’s life to the lives of the 8 rescuers, they are actually falling into a cognitive bias.
It has never been a multiple-choice question, and the film never delves into the trolley problem.
