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Re: moral high ground...
Posted by Arrow (Guest) - Saturday, November 12 2011, 6:09:46 (UTC)
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Marcello wrote:
>"Is that the answer you would give if you had it on a final exam in a philosophy class?
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>Come on, what would you do? Rashad? Marcello?"
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>- I don't believe in torture. It's been proven that you can get someone to agree to whatever lies you shove in front of them to sign their name to if you torture them enough.
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>I would dose the individual with LSD and MDMA (ectasy) and use psychological methods to get the truth out of them. It works much better than physical torture (at least it did with my ex-girlfriend).


No no not torture. The question was:

"If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? "

It is from a Harvard lecture here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY



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