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Someone needs to watch "Knock at the Cabin" by Shyamalan.
Or Cabin in the Woods.
Absolutely!
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.
Random people we've never heard of get tortured every day for less. What's one more? Jack Bauer will do whatever he needs to do so everyone else can live and the world doesn't end.
So, who do we torture?
shotgun
I think it's a harder problem when you're the one that has to do the torturing. It's easier to say "yeah that dude should get tortured" than to do the waterboarding yourself. Unless you're fucked in the head of course.
I mean, easier? Sure. But I don't think most people would find it easy to just say go torture a guy. At least I hope so.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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