SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years 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-square95linkfedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down111
arrow-up191arrow-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 · 2 years agomessage-square95linkfedilink
minus-squareEncode1307@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years 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-up0·2 years 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.