The central problem may be one of measurement, one of incentives (we don’t want people cultivating non-consensual sadistic desires), or a combination of the two.
I think this is pretty much it. We don’t want people to want to rape coma patients. We don’t want coma-rape to become common enough that people are afraid of having it happen to them. Similarly, if we decide to make this film, everyone has to be afraid that they or someone they know could be the person picked to be tortured, and the idea of torturing innocents becomes more normal. In general, caution should be applied in situations like this, even if no extreme disutility is immediately obvious (See http://lesswrong.com/lw/v0/ethical_inhibitions/).
I think this is pretty much it. We don’t want people to want to rape coma patients. We don’t want coma-rape to become common enough that people are afraid of having it happen to them. Similarly, if we decide to make this film, everyone has to be afraid that they or someone they know could be the person picked to be tortured, and the idea of torturing innocents becomes more normal. In general, caution should be applied in situations like this, even if no extreme disutility is immediately obvious (See http://lesswrong.com/lw/v0/ethical_inhibitions/).