There are two people!
Janeway did nothing wrong.
Tuvix was never meant to be, and cannot help the circumstances of his creation, but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
I wouldn't feel good about it, as clearly Janeway did not, but I would make the same choice.
The way I see it, Tuvok and Neelix died in an accident, and a separate life emerged from it. The crew just couldn't accept their deaths so they killed Tuvix to get them back.
I don't see it as a logical decision but an emotional one. How Tuvix came to exist doesn't matter, he was still a person, and they basically murdered him to get their friends back. He wouldn't be the first living thing that wasn't "meant" to exist.
Either way it's a very difficult moral question and probably the best episode in Voyager as far as emotional impact.
The Doctor said it the best with that simple line of "first do no harm". He's acting in the present.
The way I think about the scenario is this:
- Two Main cast crew members die on away mission
- Q shows up and says I will bring them back to life and in exchange I will erase some random Starfleet member from the timeline and make it as if they never existed.
- Would anyone in Starfleet be ok with this?
I'm guessing no...
The only moral solution to the trolley problem is to arrest the experimenter and charge him with intellectual terrorism.
- Would anyone know about someone that doesn't exist?
#JanewayIsAMurderer #SorryNotSorry
Trolley Problem:
Option 1: Do nothing. Save Tuvix, but lose Neelix and Tuvok forever
Option 2: Pull lever. Kill Tuvix, but regain Neelix and TuvokShe murdered her way into this, and by God, she's going to murder her way out of it.
