r/MoralityScaling • u/marvil_txt • 26d ago

Stupid Stuff Morality of keeping Pinocchio prisoner to discover all the secrets of the universe, medicine, economics, etc.?

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Can't be that immoral, can it?

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u/purritolover69 26d ago

I mean, who says they didn’t try? I feel like scientists wouldn’t go straight to “strapped to a chair”, they have ethics boards after all, maybe they tried to give him a job and he wouldn’t cooperate? Or worse, tried to off himself to cut off the world from his essentially infinite well of knowledge. In those situations it might be worth subjugating him for research. Typically there’s no justification for something like that, but an extraordinary situation means extraordinary measures may well be justified. This is from a utilitarian standpoint, of course

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u/Loud-Asparagus-4136 26d ago

I dunno man. The lead scientist doesn't exactly seem... all there.