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Quote by: Simonius  If I have decided that it is morally acceptable for
me to torture someone, isn't it better that I do
the job grimly without pleasure or rage? |
Let me put it this way, just to drive the point home: If I decide to torture you, would it make any difference whatsoever how happy I was while doing it? Maybe it would make an extremely marginal difference, but it probably shouldn't even do that. It wouldn't change the fact that I'd be torturing you, a human organism that is living and breathing.
Not being tortured sounds like a good deal to me. I wouldn't accept it if it came coldly. Nor would I want it delivered with a WalMart smiley face. In fact, if I absolutely had to choose an option, I would want someone to torture me while enraged, because at least it would be more explicable. If done clinically, it would take on truly sadistic proportions, as it would make me nothing but a test subject. It would be just as sadistic, but with a false mask of decency. But again, I'd prefer none of these modes.
Grandpa h.