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Moral Dilemmas: Scylla & Charybdis

Lesser-Evil Principle. The End Justifies the Means. Calculation Without Spirit, Spirit Without Law of Informational Deontology.

Helen Sinus

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard, Journals

I. The Strait of Messina: Scylla & Charybdis

In the Greek mythology, the strait is narrow enough that a sailor can see both deaths at once. On one side stands a cliff, and in the cliff a cave, and in the cave Scylla, six-headed, plucking one man from the deck for every throat she owns. On the other, an arrow’s flight away churns Charybdis, the whirlpool that drinks the sea three times a day and returns only splinters.…