SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year 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-square50fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down15
arrow-up144arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareafraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year 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.