• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “Hey should the rich and wealthy be able to rape children as long as they pay them afterwards?”

    What a weird fucking question to ask.

    • Unbecredible@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      I think it must be fairly normal to wonder things like this. Once I saw a video of a man standing on a busy sidewalk offering passersby the opportunity to shoot a staple gun into his bare chest for a dollar or so. It was immediately fascinating. The proposition was so direct: pay money to inflict pain. And people were taking him up on it!

      Interesting, sort of in the same way that this Twitter guy’s question is interesting. The same way other moral thought experiments like “the trolley problem” are interesting.