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-square73fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down19
arrow-up156arrow-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-square73fedilink
minus-squareafraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoIn practice we all know what we would do. Given that morality is at best invented and aspirational that is the moral action. Or at least we think that it is.
In practice we all know what we would do. Given that morality is at best invented and aspirational that is the moral action. Or at least we think that it is.