Ethical question

[Asra]

There was an online ethics test, I'm sure you've all seen it, with the train and the 5 people tied to the track versus the 1 person tied on track, then with the 5 people tied on track vs the 1 person you can push to stop the train etc
Now one question went like this : "One person hid a ticking bomb in a crowded city, and it would explode in 1 hour. The criminal doesn't want to admit where they placed it so would you resort to torture (with a 75% chance of them saying the truth) so you can save the populace?" and I said yes.
And I was wondering, from the Zevism perspective, is torture (under certain circumstances) ethical?
Disclaimer no, I won't get myself in legal trouble :lol:

 

[darkmonkey666]

It should be for some of the true traitors and enemies against human kind. Though I kind of doubt this will be allowed legally ever as it can psychologically mess up or scar people doing it. It will probably happen anyways though just by people losing their control.

So maybe this isn't ethical at all.

 

[darkmonkey666]

Xtianity Islam communism and the yehuborim invented the idea of torturing people. I think we should be above our enemies and not fully act on an "animal" level.

 

[Jade9779]

The trolley problem is an example of act-utilitarianism, an ethical theory I have completely adopted. It is the question of the common phrase 'the lesser of two evils'.

Take, for example, an illness spreading through a hospital only to babies. The doctors have only two possible options as to what this is, both of which have the same symptoms. They have to test their theory on one of the babies which would mean if it is option A, the baby dies and it is option B so the other five babies are treated for that illness and live.

While easy to comprehend on paper, it could be problematic when trying to apply this in real life. I, for one, completely agree with it. It means the most good of a bad situation. It means, while not all the babies could be saved, there are still babies that can be saved, albeit at the sacrifice of one.

This type of mentality is one that Christianity is utterly against. Xians would rather put all their focus on the one baby dying rather than the five others that get the opportunity to live. Completely ignoring the good this brings. It is that kind of thinking which leads to inaction and nothing being solved.

I'd even go as far as to say that we, as Satanists, are Utilitarians.