SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months 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-square98fedilinkarrow-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 · 11 months agomessage-square98fedilink
minus-squareRBWells@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoI agree. It would be practical and coldhearted, not moral. It’s also a fake question because there is no situation where torturing someone makes the world a better place.
I agree. It would be practical and coldhearted, not moral.
It’s also a fake question because there is no situation where torturing someone makes the world a better place.