Please don’t use loaded words like that. It’s not worth while to let ten people rape someone. By using that word, you’re bringing in connotation that doesn’t apply.
It means that in a rational society we must allow bad things to happen if that bad thing allows for total less suffering.
Bad things happening can’t result in less suffering then no bad things happening, unless you allow negative suffering. In the example you gave, we can either choose for one person to suffer, or for ten. We must allow bad things to happen because they were the only options. There is no moral pattern or decision theory that can change that.
I’d go with allowing the “rape”. This situation is no different than if there were one rapist, ten victims, and the happiness from the rapist was less than the sadness from the victims. I’d hurt the fewer to help the many.
Please don’t use loaded words like that. It’s not worth while to let ten people rape someone. By using that word, you’re bringing in connotation that doesn’t apply.
Bad things happening can’t result in less suffering then no bad things happening, unless you allow negative suffering. In the example you gave, we can either choose for one person to suffer, or for ten. We must allow bad things to happen because they were the only options. There is no moral pattern or decision theory that can change that.
I’d go with allowing the “rape”. This situation is no different than if there were one rapist, ten victims, and the happiness from the rapist was less than the sadness from the victims. I’d hurt the fewer to help the many.