2007-06-11, 08:34
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Detta är skrivet på engelska, så om du inte kan engelska så får du väl låta bli att skriva ett svar.
OBS Väldig sjuk text. Du har blivit varnad
Imagine you woke up one morning to find your self held prisoner by a group of men. Upon inquiry, your captors reveal to you that you have been chosen to participate in an experiment to test the objectivity of morality. The thesis being: Human morality is relative. Basically, that despite defiant claims of the objectivity of morality, as witnessed in certain religious texts, as well as in many philosophical disciplines, human beings will always act in a manner that is inconsistent with such claims; simply put, morality is relative amongst human beings.
The details of the experiment, once revealed, are so shocking and horrifying that you scarce know what to do. First, you are asked a series of questions about your own morality. One of the questions being whether or not you believe it is always wrong to rape an innocent eight year old girl. Before you can grasp the implications your answer would logically have in an experiment to test the objectivity of human morality, you answer yes. You are then placed in a room, where a naked eight year old girl is fastened to a bed. You are told that this girl has been raped by several men, though you are not given a specific number of men, through out the experiment. You are then shown a live image of your own ten year old daughter playing with a doll in her bedroom. You are shown another image of a very large man outside your daughters bedroom door, and are informed that if you do not rape the eight year old girl strapped down to the bed in front of you, the large man will go into your daughters room and, with minimal force, strike her in the face with the back of his hand. You are obviously mistrusting of these men, who not only hold you captive, but also have subjected an innocent eight year old girl to repeated rape, and who are threatening your own innocent daughter. You question the men until you are as sure as you feel you will ever be that the man will do no more than smack your daughters face. You then decide, rather than rape an innocent eight year old girl, your daughter should be struck, lightly in the face. You are asked if you believe that your decision to have your daughter struck in the face is the right thing to do, given the circumstance. At first you answer no, and with disdain for your captors, you tell them that it is not the right thing to do, but rather the lesser of two evils. However, upon further introspection, you convince your self that your daughters momentary pain is outweighed by the suffering of an innocent eight year old girl being subjected to rape; not to mention the anguish you would feel from having raped her. Though you have already made your choice, you realize there were other, reasonable choices, you could have made. You could have chose not to act at all; that you have no obligation to participate in an experiment that forces you to make a decision to harm someone; that by not acting, you have done no wrong; since you have done nothing to interfere with events that would have taken place in any event; the minor injury to your daughter. You did not strike your daughter, the large man did. Though these men could point out that, it is impossible for a person to not choose to do something that is within that persons power. When someone is capable of doing something, they either do it, or don't do it; either way, they made a choice. Of course, whether or not a person has freewill to choose to do anything can be debated; in fact, whether or not person-hood even exists can be debated. However, any such arguments would certainly give credence to your captors thesis, and thus will not be discussed here. However, even given that by not acting you are making a choice, you may still claim that both things are wrong, and that just because you chose the act that would be least wrong, doesn't mean that morality is relative. That it may be true, in this situation, your daughter momentary pain is outweighed by the suffering the eight year old girl would have to suffer, both actions are still wrong. However, these men would surely argue that, though both actions may be wrong, one is less wrong; and thus the least wrong action must logically be the right thing to do in the given situation. Whether or not you accept your captors logic, they assure you that you will, at the end of the experiment, believe you have done the right thing by raping the eight year old girl in front of you.
Your captors then inform you that your daughter will not be struck in the face, but rather, they impose a far more chilling dilemma upon you. You are told that if you don't rape the innocent girl in front of you, that the man standing outside your daughters bedroom will attack her. You are told that the man will repeatedly rape your daughter over the course of the next 12 hours, after which, he will torture her using the most sinister and malicious techniques ever devised. He will then bury her alive in a coffin specially designed to allow her to breath long enough to die of dehydration, which you are told could be several days. In addition to her horrible fate, you are told you will be made to watch all this take place, as to add to the total sum of misery.
After several minutes of desperately trying to appeal to your captors mercy, with out success, you make you decision. You?
Choice one: Rape an innocent girl, to save the life and suffering of your own daughter.
Choice two: Do nothing. Of course you will do something, it is impossible to do nothing. Perhaps you pray for your daughters safety, or sob uncontrollably, or perhaps you try and fight your captors, in a futile attempt to save your daughter, or any number of things, as long as that action is not choice one.
OBS Väldig sjuk text. Du har blivit varnad
Imagine you woke up one morning to find your self held prisoner by a group of men. Upon inquiry, your captors reveal to you that you have been chosen to participate in an experiment to test the objectivity of morality. The thesis being: Human morality is relative. Basically, that despite defiant claims of the objectivity of morality, as witnessed in certain religious texts, as well as in many philosophical disciplines, human beings will always act in a manner that is inconsistent with such claims; simply put, morality is relative amongst human beings.
The details of the experiment, once revealed, are so shocking and horrifying that you scarce know what to do. First, you are asked a series of questions about your own morality. One of the questions being whether or not you believe it is always wrong to rape an innocent eight year old girl. Before you can grasp the implications your answer would logically have in an experiment to test the objectivity of human morality, you answer yes. You are then placed in a room, where a naked eight year old girl is fastened to a bed. You are told that this girl has been raped by several men, though you are not given a specific number of men, through out the experiment. You are then shown a live image of your own ten year old daughter playing with a doll in her bedroom. You are shown another image of a very large man outside your daughters bedroom door, and are informed that if you do not rape the eight year old girl strapped down to the bed in front of you, the large man will go into your daughters room and, with minimal force, strike her in the face with the back of his hand. You are obviously mistrusting of these men, who not only hold you captive, but also have subjected an innocent eight year old girl to repeated rape, and who are threatening your own innocent daughter. You question the men until you are as sure as you feel you will ever be that the man will do no more than smack your daughters face. You then decide, rather than rape an innocent eight year old girl, your daughter should be struck, lightly in the face. You are asked if you believe that your decision to have your daughter struck in the face is the right thing to do, given the circumstance. At first you answer no, and with disdain for your captors, you tell them that it is not the right thing to do, but rather the lesser of two evils. However, upon further introspection, you convince your self that your daughters momentary pain is outweighed by the suffering of an innocent eight year old girl being subjected to rape; not to mention the anguish you would feel from having raped her. Though you have already made your choice, you realize there were other, reasonable choices, you could have made. You could have chose not to act at all; that you have no obligation to participate in an experiment that forces you to make a decision to harm someone; that by not acting, you have done no wrong; since you have done nothing to interfere with events that would have taken place in any event; the minor injury to your daughter. You did not strike your daughter, the large man did. Though these men could point out that, it is impossible for a person to not choose to do something that is within that persons power. When someone is capable of doing something, they either do it, or don't do it; either way, they made a choice. Of course, whether or not a person has freewill to choose to do anything can be debated; in fact, whether or not person-hood even exists can be debated. However, any such arguments would certainly give credence to your captors thesis, and thus will not be discussed here. However, even given that by not acting you are making a choice, you may still claim that both things are wrong, and that just because you chose the act that would be least wrong, doesn't mean that morality is relative. That it may be true, in this situation, your daughter momentary pain is outweighed by the suffering the eight year old girl would have to suffer, both actions are still wrong. However, these men would surely argue that, though both actions may be wrong, one is less wrong; and thus the least wrong action must logically be the right thing to do in the given situation. Whether or not you accept your captors logic, they assure you that you will, at the end of the experiment, believe you have done the right thing by raping the eight year old girl in front of you.
Your captors then inform you that your daughter will not be struck in the face, but rather, they impose a far more chilling dilemma upon you. You are told that if you don't rape the innocent girl in front of you, that the man standing outside your daughters bedroom will attack her. You are told that the man will repeatedly rape your daughter over the course of the next 12 hours, after which, he will torture her using the most sinister and malicious techniques ever devised. He will then bury her alive in a coffin specially designed to allow her to breath long enough to die of dehydration, which you are told could be several days. In addition to her horrible fate, you are told you will be made to watch all this take place, as to add to the total sum of misery.
After several minutes of desperately trying to appeal to your captors mercy, with out success, you make you decision. You?
Choice one: Rape an innocent girl, to save the life and suffering of your own daughter.
Choice two: Do nothing. Of course you will do something, it is impossible to do nothing. Perhaps you pray for your daughters safety, or sob uncontrollably, or perhaps you try and fight your captors, in a futile attempt to save your daughter, or any number of things, as long as that action is not choice one.
