How would you answer this moral problem?

🍁 Aria 🔮 · December 07, 2014, 04:29:30 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on December 07, 2014, 04:26:35 PM

It's just far-fetched because it is indeed a child that we're talking about. They tend to be incapable of reason.

All I'm saying is that it'd likely be something considered when it was planned out, and at most as a precaution.

More Than Mortal · December 07, 2014, 04:30:26 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on December 07, 2014, 04:26:35 PM

It's just far-fetched because it is indeed a child that we're talking about. They tend to be incapable of reason.

That, and the fact that taking pleasure in your suffering, for whatever reason, completely disrupts the idea of one suffering for the benefit of the many.

Since you've just removed the suffering from the equation, and made everybody content in some form.

🍁 Aria 🔮 · December 07, 2014, 04:34:38 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on December 07, 2014, 04:30:26 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on December 07, 2014, 04:26:35 PM
It's just far-fetched because it is indeed a child that we're talking about. They tend to be incapable of reason.
That, and the fact that taking pleasure in your suffering, for whatever reason, completely disrupts the idea of one suffering for the benefit of the many.

Since you've just removed the suffering from the equation, and made everybody content in some form.

I think you may have misread my post. The masochist bit was more of a humorous afterthought rather than any point for discussion.

The OP stressed any happiness would result in the city being destroyed. Because of that, I'd assume that anything that could even remotely or possibly cause a momentary sense of happiness would be avoided.