RE: Does the end ever justify the means?
October 11, 2017 at 1:19 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2017 at 1:19 pm by bennyboy.)
(October 11, 2017 at 12:38 pm)pool the matey Wrote: Thinking further about our recent good person vs bad person discussions, my stand is that there are two types of people in our world:
1) People that agree with "The end justify the means"
2) People that disagree with "The end justify the means"
4 Questions:
* What type of person are you?
* What do you think of people with the opposite view?
* Can you maintain a good relation with someone with the opposite or same view?
* What do you most love and hate about your view and the opposite view?
The problem is that the future is unknown. So really, we're considering not a balance of guaranteed outcomes, but of chances.
If I knew, for example, that New York would be bombed by muslim terrorists (i.e. I had a time machine), then I might consider torturing or killing many thousands of innocents to get at the actual perpetrators.
But since that kind of information is impossible to have, I couldn't justify just randomly torturing or killing people because they might know a guy who knows a guy who talks big about what he wants to do to the US.
