so anyways my ethics classes are going great im having a fun great awesome cool fun great poggers time

  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You know that meme about how any metric used as a target, ceases to be a good metric? That applies to torture: the torturee’s main goal is to end the torture and it’s fairly likely they will provide bad information

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      10 months ago

      I should’ve added - we know torture doesn’t work, but that should be mentioned in the hypothetical. As it stands, I’m tempted to believe torturing the daughter is guaranteed to result in her revealing the information which will save a million lives.