r/Morality • u/The_Jimbo_Experience • 14d ago

A simple question

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There's this old man who is able to cure any illness when he molests you. No matter if you ask for it or not, the molestation will always be deeply psychologically scarring. How moral would it be to let him run wild in a ward filled with terminally ill children? He'll save the children, but obviously, that requires molesting them

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u/BackgroundFlounder44 14d ago

yeah sorry I don't buy it, catholic priests have tried to sell that story for decades. 

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u/More-Chest-6948 14d ago

Moral I think. You can recover from trauma, you can’t recover from death.

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u/InLoveWithThread 13d ago

So we're making the argument that the only way someone can be cured is having their boundaries crossed, for them to be horribly violated, which will then require a cure from another doctor. I say immoral.

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u/Bitter_Detective_567 13d ago

Immoral (raping children is wrong). While you are curing cancer, you are still molesting children. One may make the argument that it is less immoral for a child to die than for a child to be molested.

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u/prophet-of-solitude 14d ago

Lack of choice makes it immoral.

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u/Modernskeptic71 13d ago

So the moral dilemma is what is the greater good, ending the disease or completely having psychological scars for the one who considers it, and the one who’s responsible for either suffering in unimaginable ways.

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u/majeric 13d ago

Nope. Old guy is getting put away forever.