Should you kill the fat man?

[citizenzen]

Originally Posted by filmbuff

I answered that torture is always wrong, but I would have tortured the fat man. I think the question was bad to be honest; of course you can make someone answer "yes" by taking something to such an extreme.

Exactly. It really comes down to the percentage chance that he'll cave into the torture. I can't imagine that anybody wouldn't torture the fat man if there were 100% chance he'd spill the beans. What about a 99% chance?

98%?

97%?

96%?

95%

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There's an old joke with the punchline, "I know what you are. Now we're just haggling over price" that seems to apply here.

[balamw]

What, no Kobayashi Maru option?

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