# Resolved:  Our Moral Intuitions Regarding Torture Make No Sense.

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**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-our-moral-intuitions-regarding-torture-make-no-sense/729098 "2015-08-27T20:26:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-our-moral-intuitions-regarding-torture-make-no-sense/729098/21 "2015-08-28T17:46:20Z")

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> [@Tithonus](#):
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> The first is that _no-one_ is entirely opposed to torture as a matter of philosophical principle. It’s easy to conjure up hypotheticals that would awaken the Grand Inquisitor in all of us.[…]It doesn’t matter who you are, if you raise the stakes high enough _everyone_ eventually says “Fuck it. Torture the guy.”

Want to bet?

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> So yeah. As a matter of philosophical principle, nobody is 100% opposed to torture. It’s important that participants in this thread recognise that about themselves.

No. I would die rather than torture someone. I would see you die. I would see my wife die. I would see my kids die. I would see _the whole of humanity burn_, before I torture someone. So where does that leave your argument now?

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