Edward Hall is sceptical about this infamous ethical example’s usefulness.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/159/Torture_and_Ticking_Bombs
Torture & Ticking Bombs
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Re: Torture & Ticking Bombs
As always, in regard to situations like this, there will be those who are convinced [philosophically or otherwise] that there is in fact the optimal moral resolution. If not the only rational -- deontological -- frame of mind.
Then those like me who argue that it always comes down to 1] the particular context itself and 2] the manner in which we have come to think about it "here and now" given the existential embodiment of dasein.
Then those like me who argue that it always comes down to 1] the particular context itself and 2] the manner in which we have come to think about it "here and now" given the existential embodiment of dasein.