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If you consider torture to be ethically bad (which I suspect most would), then it would be strange to make an exception to it and say it's bad except someone di
by ljm 9y ago
If you consider torture to be ethically bad (which I suspect most would), then it would be strange to make an exception to it and say it's bad except someone did something to deserve it, no? From the position of the person doing the torture, I would find it hard to say that someone else's crime permits me to be less ethical myself, as if committing a hundred murders needs to be balanced out by adding to the crime.
- slededit 9y agoI consider locking other humans up to be ethically bad - but I can't think of anything better than prisons. Something being ethically bad is insufficient to rule it out. The degree of the ethical failure matters, as does the purpose of the action. This will inevitably be read to imply I'm advocating Torture which I am not. I'm merely pointing out that binary ethical/unethical is insufficient.