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Is it not already a moral slip to allow those 1 million people to die in a fireball to save the 1 person from torture?

• bluesign 5y ago
  What is the threshold, what about saving 1 person from dying ?
  • Ekaros 5y ago
    Or potentially saving someone from torture?
• pmoriarty 5y ago
  "Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature -- that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance -- in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Loughla 5y ago
  No, because I am not the one responsible for those deaths. I am absolutely responsible for the torture, if I perform it. It is a travesty and a tragedy, but morally, if I did my best within the bounds of the law, what else is there? If there is no rule of law, what's the purpose of the whole thing? If torture is negotiable, why not speeding? Why not kidnapping (which might be implied in the torture)? Why not eliminating the right to a fair trial (again, maybe that's implied)?