[4824] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: moral indecision
marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Sep 4 17:54:37 1995
>> ... last January I saw a half dozen people walk past a man throwing a
>> woman repeatedly up against a car while she screamed "Ow, stop, you're
>> hurting me!"
This is not a counterargument to mine, since the man is obviously
assaulting the woman.
>> There's a line somewhere, but it's probably better to err on the side
>> of intrusiveness.
This is a slippery slope. Is it better for a police officer to err on
the side of intrusiveness?
