Posted: Mar 23, 2020 11:20 am
Master Lawbringer wrote:Cito di Pense wrote:Master Lawbringer wrote:
In the hopefully very rare case that it would be morally justified to actually put a real person inside a brazen bull, it would _still_ be bad for the person inside the bull.
This brazen bull business is only something that somebody imagined -- you have not demonstrated otherwise. How is anything that theoretical a useful exercise in moral judgement? I do understand how it's possible to outrank someone on the insanity scale by getting a little too theoretical.
The argument doesn't change when considering other means of torture.
The brazen bull however is explicitly sadistic. This reverses your notion of love and makes the problem apparent.
So you say. If you want to argue that torture is immoral, just fucking do that. Otherwise, fuck right off. Keep this in mind, though: Arguments that torture is immoral have not stopped torture. There must be something wrong with the methodology of arguing.