Torture really is the lowest thing I can think of. It is basically the very definition of using someone else exclusively and unquestionably as a means to an end, one of the most universally unethical things I can think of, except for a rare breed of consequentialists who probably just admit it under strained hypothetical situations to maintain consistency (in what I think is an otherwise hopelessly bankrupt moral system—partially because of this kind of strain in fact). Consequentialists always have this problem that they need to simultaneously insist that suffering is bad and happiness is good in order to measure anything, but then have absolutely no qualms about just crossing it out, rendering their use of it in analysis questionable at best. “Oh, happiness is very important! Unless I can destroy yours to make two other people happy.” They would pull it from the very bodies it supports in order to weigh it and suppose somehow that it is not destroyed in the process.
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No. :rolleyes:
Oh. Killed nicely. I get it.
But killing them proves that you do. Okay.