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by cosmo7 6499 days ago
> I can, without hesitation, proclaim that eating children is categorically wrong.

You are captain of a cruise liner full of children. The ship is boarded by pirates. These pirates are utterly evil and utterly truthful. They demand that either you eat one child, who happens to be about to die of a congenital heart defect, or they will blow up the ship and kill hundreds of children.

What do you do?

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I'm not sure what I would do, but I know what Jack Bauer would do. He would eat the pirates.
Absolute veracity is generally acknowledged to be a virtue, conflicting with the "utterly evil" trait. Thus, the pirates disappear in a puff of logic. This once again proves that conjectural sophistry based on impossible examples is categorically un-compelling.
Dude, you have a wild imagination.