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Perpetrators of the Spanish Inquisition believed that they were guiding Jews to the "best choice". That didn't make their actions ethical.
by crusso 14y ago
Perpetrators of the Spanish Inquisition believed that they were guiding Jews to the "best choice". That didn't make their actions ethical.
- rhizome 14y agoIt was ethical in that they had reasons for doing it, but that didn't mean it wasn't destructive and counter-productive. Those are still ethical choices, though, "ethics" is not a "good or bad," it's just a name for the group of reasons used to do something.
- crusso 14y agoEthics involves some judgement of "right" and "wrong". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that torturing people so that they worship your "loving and forgiving God" is unethical.
- rhizome 14y agoIt's certainly destructive. However, certain people throughout history have figured out way for the ends to justify the means, they had an ethic (cf. TV's Dexter), and this contextual dependence is what I'm trying to describe.