ADINA: Rabbi Akiva would reason that the men were right in sacrificing one life to save the rest, whereas Ben Petura would argue that the men were wrong in treating the boy who was killed as if his life was not as valuable as the rest of them. Because the men placed different values on each of their lives – rather than acting in the morality of loving your neighbor as yourself – they chose the path that Rabbi Akiva would have probably dictated for them; they chose to save the greater whole over acting fairly.