SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2年前If 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-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 · 2年前message-square100fedilink
minus-squareOptimusPhillip@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·2年前If that one innocent person agrees to it, I say yes. Otherwise, no.
minus-squareNightOwllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2年前Then it becomes are you willing to torture innocents to save everyone else?
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2年前If they volunteer yes. But torture you sign up for isn’t torture; a key aspect of torture is its nonconsensual nature.
If that one innocent person agrees to it, I say yes. Otherwise, no.
If nobody volunteers, we all go down.
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.