Torture & Ticking Bombs

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Torture & Ticking Bombs

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Edward Hall is sceptical about this infamous ethical example’s usefulness.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/159/Torture_and_Ticking_Bombs
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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.
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