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Justifying The Means

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Do You Feel That Torture the Child to Death Would Be Right?

Petersen: The idea of pointing at one person really makes me upset. And it really makes me feel that this would be just terrible. Do you experience that emotionally, in terms of how horrible the choicest? Oh, i do experience it emotionally, yes. It's the same idea, incidentally, that is in dostoyevsky's famous example in the brothers karimazov where he poses the question,. suppose you could create utopia forever, basically peace on earth forever. But to do so, you first have to torture this little child in front of you....

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