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Assume their torture would last at least many hours.
If your response would be different based on your relationship to the person, please explain.
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Why are they slated to get tortured?
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No I love watch pain and suffering
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Why are they slated to get tortured?
Does it matter? Assume you have no way to stop the torture from happening, if that helps.
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HeartView posted:
Immortal_Haze posted:
Why are they slated to get tortured?
Does it matter? Assume you have no way to stop the torture from happening, if that helps.
Yes, it matters. If it were a child rapist, I'd do what I could to make sure the torture lasted longer and was worse...
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it would be their choice if they were capable of making it
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What? no. I'm a pragmatic person and torture serves no purpose to me, it's a waste of time.
If somebody needs to be killed, you kill them. That's the way. 
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Immortal_Haze posted:
HeartView posted:
Immortal_Haze posted:
Why are they slated to get tortured?
Does it matter? Assume you have no way to stop the torture from happening, if that helps.
Yes, it matters. If it were a child rapist, I'd do what I could to make sure the torture lasted longer and was worse...
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Fine, point taken. Assume then that, whatever the reasons for them being tortured, you have no specific desire to see this person tortured.
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HeartView posted:
Immortal_Haze posted:
Why are they slated to get tortured?
Does it matter? Assume you have no way to stop the torture from happening, if that helps.
but killing them WOULD stop the torture...
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Fine, point taken. Assume then that, whatever the reasons for them being tortured, you have no specific desire to see this person tortured.
Impossible. There is no one I have no desire of seeing tortured.
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Fine, point taken. Assume then that, whatever the reasons for them being tortured, you have no specific desire to see this person tortured.
Impossible. There is no one I have no desire of seeing tortured.
So you wish everyone was tortured until they die?
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HeartView posted:
Fine, point taken. Assume then that, whatever the reasons for them being tortured, you have no specific desire to see this person tortured.
Can I talk to the person before I make the decision?
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rabbitslayer posted:
HeartView posted:
Immortal_Haze posted:
Why are they slated to get tortured?
Does it matter? Assume you have no way to stop the torture from happening, if that helps.
but killing them WOULD stop the torture...
I'm hoping you knew what I meant.  EXCEPT killing them yourself, obviously.
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If it was a liberal, No. If it was rat, yes.
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You folks are making this too complicated, so let me just rephrase it again.
It comes down to you killing the person yourself or them being tortured very slowly by other people until they die. You don't get to watch them die unless you do it yourself. If you don't know the person then you will not be given a chance to know them. You don't know WHY they will be tortured and killed. You have no other information to go on.
Your only choice to make then is killing them yourself or allowing them to suffer a slow and painful death.
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Am I the one doing the torturing?
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You folks are making this too complicated, so let me just rephrase it again.
It comes down to you killing the person yourself or them being tortured very slowly by other people until they die. You don't get to watch them die unless you do it yourself. If you don't know the person then you will not be given a chance to know them. You don't know WHY they will be tortured and killed. You have no other information to go on.
Your only choice to make then is killing them yourself or allowing them to suffer a slow and painful death.
Do I get my choice of how to kill them?
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Let them suffer. Not my problem
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ikkoikki posted:
HeartView posted:
You folks are making this too complicated, so let me just rephrase it again.
It comes down to you killing the person yourself or them being tortured very slowly by other people until they die. You don't get to watch them die unless you do it yourself. If you don't know the person then you will not be given a chance to know them. You don't know WHY they will be tortured and killed. You have no other information to go on.
Your only choice to make then is killing them yourself or allowing them to suffer a slow and painful death.
Do I get my choice of how to kill them?
Whatever the method, it cannot be anything other than a mostly painless and preferably quick death. A bullet to the head, decapitation, poison pills, overdose of painkillers, etc.
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I'll be honest; I'd kill someone just for the heck of it.
But, to answer your actual question: yes. I would kill someone to end their suffering, unless I was the one doing the torturing.
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HeartView posted:
ikkoikki posted:
HeartView posted:
You folks are making this too complicated, so let me just rephrase it again.
It comes down to you killing the person yourself or them being tortured very slowly by other people until they die. You don't get to watch them die unless you do it yourself. If you don't know the person then you will not be given a chance to know them. You don't know WHY they will be tortured and killed. You have no other information to go on.
Your only choice to make then is killing them yourself or allowing them to suffer a slow and painful death.
Do I get my choice of how to kill them?
Whatever the method, it cannot be anything other than a mostly painless and preferably quick death. A bullet to the head, decapitation, poison pills, overdose of painkillers, etc.
What's the dilemma then? Yeah I'd kill them. Guns and poison are relatively easy ways to kill someone.
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Kevorkian tried it. He went to prison.
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no, because if you piss off a torturer you're likely to end up on his table
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The dilemma would be whether you would feel ok with being the one to kill someone to allow them to avoid a much worse fate. Is killing someone in this context a "good thing" as fare as you are concerned?
Not everyone would answer yes or now. For many I'd imagine it would be an "impossible" decision to make.
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I won't do your moral philosophy homework for you. 
But yeah, probably not unless I had some motivation that they deserved a quick death.
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I won't do your moral philosophy homework for you.
But yeah, probably not unless I had some motivation that they deserved a quick death.
I'm about to turn 40 and not in school.
What if it was your child or someone else you loved deeply?
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if they asked me to. i'd rather be tortured and be alive for awhile unless it was butt rape or something
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Yes, but only if they desperately asked me to first. And they'd probably already have to be a bit F'ed up from some torture already, too.
What a horrible scenario... but I would ask someone to do it for me, and would hope that a loved one would kill me to save me that kind of suffering too.
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If it was some old school Vietnam pow camp type torture then yes i would have no problem with killing them. if it was some wimpy stuff like now with truth serum and water boarding then no.
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I would hope that there would be some opportunity for rescue and/or escape during this lengthy period, and I wouldn't want to just end it quick for them to find out someone was working to free them.
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