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offline welt on 2020-04-05 19:10 [#02598975]
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Would you rather (a) be innocent and get torturted to death
in a prison-camp or (b) be the torturer who tortures the
innocent person?


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2020-04-05 19:13 [#02598977]
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depeing on who i am? the tortured


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2020-04-05 19:40 [#02598983]
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well, the right answer is (a), obvs

are we assuming the role of torturer is taken on voluntarily
though? if not, then having that as yr job would be "as bad"
as being tortured; at least if you pick (a) you don't lose
yr humanity. imagine going home to dinner with the family
after a day's screaming and mutilation


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-05 19:47 [#02598985]
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i think most people would be all "oh, of course i'll pick
(a)" but as they're screaming and gradually getting tortured
to death i'm sure amongst the screamed dfjgkdfg would be an
honest question: "IS IT TOO LATE TO CHANGE TO (B)?"


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2020-04-05 20:29 [#02598991]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2020-04-05 20:43 [#02598992]
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(b), there are no innocent people


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-05 20:56 [#02598994]
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(c) stand up, flip desk over, walk out of ethics class,
march straight to the department hed, demand to switch
majors


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2020-04-05 21:15 [#02598995]
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i agree, wont be able to exercise any torture though


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-05 21:44 [#02598996]
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are impossible-to-answer philosophy questions a form of
torture?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2020-04-05 21:45 [#02598997]
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we all got to go sometime, and if someone is being tortured
then it must be their karma, and I am just a cog in their
wheel


 

offline welt on 2020-04-06 07:33 [#02599060]
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So you think before Socrates went on trial and was
sentenced to death he should have just left Athens and have
stopped philosophizing in public - as many Athenians
suggested to him?



 

offline RussellDust on 2020-04-06 08:31 [#02599061]
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I know it’s not an option, but I would rather torture
myself to death. I don’t have to torture an
« innocent » person, and don’t have to let an
« innocent » person go through torturing me to death.


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-06 13:42 [#02599070]
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is it torture to make another human torture another human?
why do you not help the fish? because you are a fish
too



 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2020-04-06 14:44 [#02599076]
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The truly ethical answer is to simply say "not on my watch"
and shoot the prison camp guards.


 

offline welt on 2020-04-06 15:10 [#02599077]
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Ethical, and manly, too. A perfect blend.


 

online Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2020-04-06 16:09 [#02599078]
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I like the character in Iain Bank's amazing novel Transition
where the torturer character, through some rift in time and
space, ends up anticipating himself (*spoiler*) torturing
himself.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2020-04-06 17:49 [#02599094]
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we ultimately do


 


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