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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by ZoomZoomZoom on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @12:57PM (#30687731)
>Would you say the police did anything wrong?

Yes? They beat the man.

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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:12PM (#30690884)
...and saved the child. Wouldn't it have been wrong to let a child die?
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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by ZoomZoomZoom on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @05:54PM (#30692319)
Saving the child would be the consequence of the wrong action. It just happens that this particular consequence is the desired one. This doesn't magically transform the ethical value of an action. Thinking otherwise ("Finis sanctificat media") is the root of all kinds of evil in the world.

Should they have done it (acted wrongly)? I don't know, they have their own free will.

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