WrestlingSmarks Ethics, Morals, and Philosophy Debate Club

[Chris]

I'm not even saying it's always bad to have a hard line all or nothing stance on something, there's clearly subjects where that fits, but when two people actually don't but act like they do bc they are pretty far, it gets frustrating lol

 

[Barry Poppins]

Also fwiw I don't particularly trust American society in general to perform this kind of genetic modifications overall. I guarantee if such a thing was implemented, it would disproportionately affect wealthy, white, upper class citizens all the way up the 1%, while lower class minorities would get nothing without having to pay an exorbitant amount of money they can't afford and with insurance companies denying life-saving aid to these infants.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Which of course would spark fuel for the fire of eugenics again, and we really don't wanna relive that nightmare again

 

[Barry Poppins]

The Ticking Bomb

You have in your custody a terrorist with knowledge about a series of ticking time bombs throughout the city, which when set off, will kill hundreds if not thousands of civilians. He refuses to give any information, no matter how much interrogation is performed on him. You know for sure that he is weak against physical torture.

Is it justifiable to torture this prisoner to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of others?

 

[Butters]

waterboard that bitch

 

[Chris]

In that specific scenario the answer is yes, torture the guy.

I generally hate these tho bc when the situation is simplified with assumptions like "you KNOW he'll talk if tortured" that takes away a major part of the actual debate that would go into the situation if it actually happened and that's "will this torture actually work" which is what would terrorize a normal person's brain that isn't just looking for an excuse to abuse people already