The Ticking Time BombCould you authorize torture to save innocent lives?
From the show
Living Thought ExperimentsThis thought experiment forces a choice between two terrible outcomes. A terrorist has planted a bomb that will kill hundreds, and only they know its location. They will only talk under torture. You are the one who has to make the call. This scenario confronts our deepest moral beliefs. We explore the ethical dilemma of weighing an absolute wrong against the potential to save countless people, and what that decision says about us.
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