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The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil
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RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil
Suppose I know that a particular person is on the run from the law for the accidental death of a child. I know that if he is caught, he will be horribly and gruesomely tortured and suffer a long, slow, excruciatingly painful death.

Which is the lesser evil - to turn him in to the secret police or to help him escape? If I turn him in, I will be complicit in a state-sanctioned killing.  If I help him escape, I have let the killer of a child go unpunished.

These things aren't always black and white.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 17, 2020 at 6:15 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Sal - September 17, 2020 at 7:40 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Ranjr - September 17, 2020 at 11:47 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Sal - September 18, 2020 at 4:43 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Ranjr - September 18, 2020 at 12:22 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Cecelia - September 19, 2020 at 7:29 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Sal - September 19, 2020 at 11:35 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Brian37 - September 20, 2020 at 2:45 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Sal - September 20, 2020 at 7:59 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Silver - September 21, 2020 at 10:15 am
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Silver - September 21, 2020 at 10:20 am
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Silver - September 21, 2020 at 10:24 am
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Silver - September 21, 2020 at 10:52 am
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Silver - September 21, 2020 at 11:01 am
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Silver - September 21, 2020 at 11:07 am
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Sal - September 22, 2020 at 2:13 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Sal - September 22, 2020 at 2:43 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Sal - September 23, 2020 at 8:31 pm
RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil - by Ranjr - September 23, 2020 at 11:51 pm

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