A big red button
This is a random pondering.
If you were given a button, and told that if you pressed it, someone you dislike would die, would you?
You'd be able to name the person and they would die. It wouldn't be your fault. It would be entirely untraceable. Maybe it would be a car crash, maybe a heart attack. But they would die. It could be someone you'd never met - a dictator - or someone who had hurt you in a specific way.
Consequences free killing.
Could you?
Would you?
If you were given a button, and told that if you pressed it, someone you dislike would die, would you?
You'd be able to name the person and they would die. It wouldn't be your fault. It would be entirely untraceable. Maybe it would be a car crash, maybe a heart attack. But they would die. It could be someone you'd never met - a dictator - or someone who had hurt you in a specific way.
Consequences free killing.
Could you?
Would you?