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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years 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 · 2 years ago

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas
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  It is a quick read. One of a handful of stories that I have gone back to over the decades.
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  Like what happens in the anthropocene to pretty much all animals except dogs & cats lol
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  Star Trek Strange New Worlds recently did an interpretation of this story
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  https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/
  
  Someone made a response story of sorts, figure I might as well share it here

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