SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIf one innocent person is tortured so that everyone else can live and the world doesn't end, is that simultaneously unfair but also morally preferable over complete destruction of everything?message-squaremessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down111
arrow-up190arrow-down1message-squareIf one innocent person is tortured so that everyone else can live and the world doesn't end, is that simultaneously unfair but also morally preferable over complete destruction of everything?SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square97fedilink
minus-squareHardeehar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoI would say “life is a struggle”. Of course it’s challenging, it doesn’t mean that it’s bad. Regardless, what’s your point?
minus-squarethe_q@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoYou use the word struggle to give some kind of meaning to the suffering. My point is that there is no answer to the question because life is suffering.
minus-squareSeahorseTreble@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoTrue, but I think those being explicitly tortured will be suffering a lot more than the average person. We can define it as that for the hypothetical anyway xD
But living is suffering.
I would say “life is a struggle”. Of course it’s challenging, it doesn’t mean that it’s bad.
Regardless, what’s your point?
You use the word struggle to give some kind of meaning to the suffering.
My point is that there is no answer to the question because life is suffering.
True, but I think those being explicitly tortured will be suffering a lot more than the average person. We can define it as that for the hypothetical anyway xD