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Originally Posted by Suzy Creamcheese
Although maybe I'm being too idealistic, and am making it more of a matter of "perfection versus imperfection", when the real question is simply "Would you do something awful, if everyone benefitted as a result?" And in the case of the latter, though I like to think that I'd stick to my guns and find a peaceful solution, despite all my bluster realistically I'd probably simply end failing miserably, eventually giving up and going along with the tide
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But it's not even a question of perfection vs. imperfection. It's a question of morality vs. immorality (oddly enough). Really it's a question about moral relativity and what happens when what is moral and therefore easy transforms into what is grey and therefore hard.
For a modern example I like to imagine, what if torture really was effective? What if waterboarding some terrorist really would save a million people and not doing so would kill those million people? It's easy to condemn torture when torture is ineffective, but what do you do when it is?