miércoles, 24 de junio de 2015

¿Torturar a un niño?

Los textos de Peter Singer que se recogen en este comentario son clarificadores. Tal como indica el autor del artículo, Singer es franco siempre lo cual es de agradecer, aunque no viene mal recordar que la sinceridad y la coherencia no son, necesariamente, un elogio, como se ve claramente si pensamos en un caníbal sincero y coherente.

Por ejemplo, véase:
NZZ: Would you go as far as to torture a baby if this were to bring about permanent happiness for the whole of mankind?
PS: This question is from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; Ivan poses it to his brother Alyosha. I may not be capable of doing it, as it is in my evolutionarily developed nature to protect children from harm. But it would be the right thing to do. Because if I didn't, thousands of children would be tortured in the future.