@SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 11 months 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-square100fedilinkarrow-up1100
arrow-up1100message-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 • 11 months agomessage-square100fedilink
minus-square@NightOwllinkEnglish1•11 months agoThen it becomes are you willing to torture innocents to save everyone else?
minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•11 months agoIf they volunteer yes. But torture you sign up for isn’t torture; a key aspect of torture is its nonconsensual nature.
Then it becomes are you willing to torture innocents to save everyone else?
If they volunteer yes. But torture you sign up for isn’t torture; a key aspect of torture is its nonconsensual nature.