Ethical dilemma

Originally posted by: ponymo

If you get to know that in a building there are 300 people, of which one is a terrorist. You want to kill that terrorist, but it's a difficult task, so you choose to bomb the whole building instead. Is it ethical to do so? To kill one terrorist at the cost of 299 other innocent people?

And as it turns out, that one 'terrorist' happens to be someone who isn't a terrorist at all, in fact he actually only hails from the same place as terrorists, but hates terrorists and acts of terrorism just as we do.

Banning one film because 0.5% of the crew happens to be Pakistani, and that too at the cost of 99.5% of the Indian crew. How ethical is it?

Originally posted by: souro

Incorrect analogy.

First and foremost, there is no killing involved. That's a really big and important difference.

Secondly, no one said that Pakistani artists are terrorists. Absolutely no one. But they come from a country which sponsors terrorism. They pay taxes in Pakistan, which becomes part of the money used to fund terrorists. India is trying to isolate that country, that will also include boycotting any avenue through which Pakistani people maybe earning money from India.

Thirdly, you are saying, "...at the cost of 99.5% of the Indian crew." Can you please explain what cost? As per my understanding the crew have already been paid. It'd have been the producer's loss if the film was not allowed to release. Maybe the producer should have kept that in mind before throwing his weight behind Pakistani actors at a time like this, instead of his own country.

Originally posted by: souro

Incorrect analogy.

First and foremost, there is no killing involved. That's a really big and important difference.

Secondly, no one said that Pakistani artists are terrorists. Absolutely no one. But they come from a country which sponsors terrorism. They pay taxes in Pakistan, which becomes part of the money used to fund terrorists. India is trying to isolate that country, that will also include boycotting any avenue through which Pakistani people maybe earning money from India.

Thirdly, you are saying, "...at the cost of 99.5% of the Indian crew." Can you please explain what cost? As per my understanding the crew have already been paid. It'd have been the producer's loss if the film was not allowed to release. Maybe the producer should have kept that in mind before throwing his weight behind Pakistani actors at a time like this, instead of his own country.