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-square102fedilinkarrow-up194
arrow-up194message-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-square102fedilink
minus-squareAdaAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 years agoIt’s a mis framing of the problem. In your exploration of hypothetical morality, the entity creating this scenario where the world is at stake unless someone is tortured is the one with moral responsibility for the outcome
It’s a mis framing of the problem. In your exploration of hypothetical morality, the entity creating this scenario where the world is at stake unless someone is tortured is the one with moral responsibility for the outcome