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-square96fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down111
arrow-up190arrow-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-square96fedilink
minus-squareOptimusPhillip@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·2 years agoIf that one innocent person agrees to it, I say yes. Otherwise, no.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoIf nobody volunteers, we all go down.
minus-squareNightOwl@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoThen it becomes are you willing to torture innocents to save everyone else?
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoIf 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.