SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIf one innocent person is tortured so that everyone else can live and the world doesn't end, is that simultaneously unfair but also morally preferable over complete destruction of everything?message-squaremessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down112
arrow-up189arrow-down1message-squareIf one innocent person is tortured so that everyone else can live and the world doesn't end, is that simultaneously unfair but also morally preferable over complete destruction of everything?SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square98fedilink
minus-squareEncode1307linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI think it’s a harder problem when you’re the one that has to do the torturing. It’s easier to say “yeah that dude should get tortured” than to do the waterboarding yourself. Unless you’re fucked in the head of course.
minus-squareTheActualDevil@sffa.communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI mean, easier? Sure. But I don’t think most people would find it easy to just say go torture a guy. At least I hope so.
I think it’s a harder problem when you’re the one that has to do the torturing. It’s easier to say “yeah that dude should get tortured” than to do the waterboarding yourself. Unless you’re fucked in the head of course.
I mean, easier? Sure. But I don’t think most people would find it easy to just say go torture a guy. At least I hope so.