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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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?

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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?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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Then it becomes are you willing to torture innocents to save everyone else?
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  If they volunteer yes. But torture you sign up for isn’t torture; a key aspect of torture is its nonconsensual nature.

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