The final choice is to persecute the two children to force the terrorists to reveal the fourth bomb that may exist, or not to persuade the children to use other methods to extort confessions. Even if almost only the former is likely to work.
1. First, the final choice is not a train problem
In the train problem proposed by Sandel, the result of both choices is that someone will die, and the essence of the problem is "the lesser of two evils". The key to solving the problem is how to balance.
2. At the end of the film, the essence of the problem has become the choice between "I would rather kill the wrong than let it go" and "I would rather let it go and not let it go". In that scene, no one in the house is the all-knowing and all-powerful, and there is no definite knower or seer who can know if there is a bomb? Will it explode? Will he confess to mutilating children?
So no one has the right to make this choice, the child is innocent, and the potential victim is also innocent, the two are equal.
If the worst choice is made, it will only be the influence of external pressure and narcissism, and instead it will fall into the so-called banality evil of Hannah Arendt. In decisions involving life and death, human choices need to be made.
On things we don't know, we can only keep silent and let the bullet fly, who knows where it will fly and where it will fly?
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