How would you answer this moral problem?

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Why only one kid? Why can't we put people we don't like in there with her? I mean seems like she could use the company.


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I neither fear, nor despise.
Forget the city. Save the kid.


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So I would instead make thousands of people miserable to make one life less miserable? No thanks. Yeah, it's wrong but the entire city is more important than one person

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Who the fuck cares about the kid? Honestly all you people who want to butt rape the city in favor of the child make human progress seem sinful. If we could have a society where only one person had to experience these hardships,  I'd try and preserve it with my life. Why start over for no reason?


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I neither fear, nor despise.
Who the fuck cares about the kid? Honestly all you people who want to butt rape the city in favor of the child make human progress seem sinful. If we could have a society where only one person had to experience these hardships,  I'd try and preserve it with my life. Why start over for no reason?

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I do my civic duty and beat the shit out of the kid for the good of the Utopia of course.


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Fairly certain I had a dream about this once...

Anyway, I'd probably want to help the kid, but realize that in doing so I'd set the entire city against me and most likely end up dead. I'd rather not be skun alive. This leaves the option of either accepting the child's life as a fact and the reason for my happiness and moving on, or being repulsed by it to the point where I can no longer stand to live in the city. The later option is really no better, because nothing changes for the child. He's still living the same way he was before I'd have left.
May as well just utilize the fruits of his suffering. It would be rude not to.

Like Psy said though. It's never going to be a utopia, if one person suffers.
One person suffering while everybody else leads perfect lives? It's simple mathematics.

And what right do they have to let this child suffer for them to have good lives?

That child deserves freedom and a chance to live just like anyone else. We'll suffer the consequences for what's right.

Fuck the city.


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The child is fucked in either scenario. May as well reap the benefits of his/her suffering. It's the lesser of two evils really.


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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
If you think society should be taken down because suffering exists, that makes you an antinatalist.
you just fucking #buttrekt everybody who chose the kid


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Has anyone here ever read the book The Brothers Karamazov? It deals with exactly what is being talked about. The following quote is a conversation from the book between the brothers Ivan, a rational atheist, and Alyosha, a Russian Orthodox monk. It centers around the unjust suffering of innocents (namely children). It also comes from the chapter preceding the famous The Grand Inquisitor parable.

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"...It's not that I don't accept God, Alyosha, I just most respectfully return him the ticket."
"That is rebellion," Alyosha said softly, dropping his eyes.
"Rebellion? I don't like hearing such a word from you," Ivan said with feeling. "One cannot live by rebellion, and I want to live. Tell me straight out, I call on you- answer me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears- would you agree to be the architect on such conditions? Tell me the truth."
"No, I would not agree," Alyosha said softly.
"And can you admit the idea that the people for whom you are building would agree to accept their happiness on the unjustified blood of a tortured child, and having accepted it, to remain forever happy?"
"No, I cannot admit it." Alyosha said.


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If this "utopia" requires the suffering of an innocent, it isn't a utopia.
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"Purity that demands exclusion isn't real purity. Paradise is a lie."
--Pierce Hawthorne

If this "utopia" requires the suffering of an innocent, it isn't a utopia.
Whether or not the place is a utopia wasn't the question, nor should it  even be important to consider.


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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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"Purity that demands exclusion isn't real purity. Paradise is a lie."
--Pierce Hawthorne

If this "utopia" requires the suffering of an innocent, it isn't a utopia.
Whether or not the place is a utopia wasn't the question, nor should it  even be important to consider.
Literally the first sentence of Turkey's post refers to it as a utopian society. The fact that this place is a supposed utopia is the only justification for the torture of an innocent child. But that act, in and of itself, negates the only advantage that it has.


 
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
"Purity that demands exclusion isn't real purity. Paradise is a lie."
--Pierce Hawthorne

If this "utopia" requires the suffering of an innocent, it isn't a utopia.
Whether or not the place is a utopia wasn't the question, nor should it  even be important to consider.
Literally the first sentence of Turkey's post refers to it as a utopian society. The fact that this place is a supposed utopia is the only justification for the torture of an innocent child. But that act, in and of itself, negates the only advantage that it has.
Okay, but what's your answer to the question?


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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
β€”Judge Aaron Satie
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"Purity that demands exclusion isn't real purity. Paradise is a lie."
--Pierce Hawthorne

If this "utopia" requires the suffering of an innocent, it isn't a utopia.
Whether or not the place is a utopia wasn't the question, nor should it  even be important to consider.
Literally the first sentence of Turkey's post refers to it as a utopian society. The fact that this place is a supposed utopia is the only justification for the torture of an innocent child. But that act, in and of itself, negates the only advantage that it has.
Okay, but what's your answer to the question?
-Would you walk away?
No, I'd try to free the child/contact the real authorities.

-Is it more cruel to accept the child's sacrifice, or to abandon the city?
Accept the child's "sacrifice", for fucking sure. That city doesn't deserve to exist.

-Is it justifiable to rescue the child and destroy the city?
Obviously.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
If this "utopia" requires the suffering of an innocent, it isn't a utopia.
I've dealt with this two or three times by now. You're missing the point if you're caught up in the semantics.


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If you think society should be taken down because suffering exists, that makes you an antinatalist.

I don't think should be taken down because the suffering exists. But because the people of this society knowingly let the child suffer for them to have good lives.

And in that way they don't deserve to have a utopia if they let the child suffer like that.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
And in that way they don't deserve to have a utopia if they let the child suffer like that.
You mean in the same way people in the West profit off child labour and sweatshops?


 
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And in that way they don't deserve to have a utopia if they let the child suffer like that.
You mean in the same way people in the West profit off child labour and sweatshops?

Due to the lovely issue of sovereignty, that is, unfortunately, unavoidable.

The situation in the OP is.


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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Due to the lovely issue of sovereignty, that is, unfortunately, unavoidable.
Not entirely. 

While I believe the current set-up - though unfortunate - is better, it seems a lot of people here are invariably opposed to profiting from destitution on principle.

Given that this is the case, I'd be interested to know why these people aren't conducting aid missions. Unless, of course, the value of their personal labour exceeds the value of stopping suffering. Then it's about expediency, not principles or morals.


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Due to the lovely issue of sovereignty, that is, unfortunately, unavoidable.
Not entirely. 

While I believe the current set-up - though unfortunate - is better, it seems a lot of people here are invariably opposed to profiting from destitution on principle.

Given that this is the case, I'd be interested to know why these people aren't conducting aid missions.

Likely due to the fact that there are far worse conditions elsewhere in the world that need attending to first - therefore, more costs and aid goes to these regions. Aid organizations can only do so much with however much funding they get.

Child labor is shitty, yes. But there are far worse.


 
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Given that this is the case, I'd be interested to know why these people aren't conducting aid missions. Unless, of course, the value of their personal labour exceeds the value of stopping suffering. Then it's about expediency, not principles or morals.
Everyone wants to say they care without actually caring.


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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
But there are far worse.
That's no excuse. I'm not talking exclusively about child labour. The fact that there is a spectrum, or gradation, of suffering doesn't excuse inaction.

Like I say, if people are saying they'd save the child and forsake the city on principle then they should be out there, doing something about the suffering in the world. If a taxi driver can go to Syria and, unfortunately, fall hands to ISIS in his efforts then he is living proof that I) an effort can be made and II) more effort should be made.

You don't ignore the cancer because you have a stab wound.
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If you think society should be taken down because suffering exists, that makes you an antinatalist.

I don't think should be taken down because the suffering exists. But because the people of this society knowingly let the child suffer for them to have good lives.

And in that way they don't deserve to have a utopia if they let the child suffer like that.
So it'd be okay if no one knew about it?

No it wouldn't. Not at all.


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And in that way they don't deserve to have a utopia if they let the child suffer like that.
You mean in the same way people in the West profit off child labour and sweatshops?

And that's not okay.