I'm tired of seeing all these "Does Torture Work?" articles. Sure, it might work.
But if someone is in need of money, going out and robbing a bank works. That doesn't make it ethical.
jesse @ April 21, 2009 10:46 PM
There's a famous situation postulated in ethics whose name escapes me, but it goes like this:
A man's wife is dying of a curable disease, but he has only half the money needed to purchase the drugs. The pharmacist, who is charging 10 times the cost, refuses to give the man a discount. So, the man steals the medicine. Was the man right to do this?
Or there is Bush's dilemma: a man's wife is dying a curable disease, so he rounds up every pharmacist and sends them all to a secret prison and keeps them in a cramped box until one of them agrees to give him the medicine. Only the man had faulty intelligence, and his wife wasn't sick in the first place.
mother_craft @ April 22, 2009 4:19 PM
This is in response to you Jim. Yeah it's ethical to rob a bank. They've been stealing from us for years. I'd rob them all but my getaway car would break down and I can't run fast enough (too old). This of course has nothing to do with torture being ethical, unless you're torturing the CEO's of all the banks. Than it's ethical.
