Many of you, I am sure, are familiar with the films Hostel and Hostel II; supposedly, they are based on real events. The mind behind the film came across a real site that sold people, and that was their/his inspiration for the movie...although his claims were never backed up with actual evidence.
Now, it seems quite unlikely to me that such an operation would go unnoticed for long. It would have to be extremely sophisticated in order to stay off the radar.
However, that's fairly irrelevant to the topic: my question is, do you think that the actions in hostel are morally permissable? I suppose this is a bad way to present it, because it's a silly question to most as the operations of Hostel were entirely everything most consider immoral
If I were to rephrase it a different way: is it justified to torture others for one's own pleasure? As the trailer for the first says, it's about experiencing "...anything you desire"; also, is sadism a part of human nature, to an extent?
As for me, it depends: if the people are bad people, I would not have a problem with it; they're bad, and I might as well enjoy what use they can be to me; However, I would never bring myself to harming innocent people. That's my main objection to the idea.
For those of you that have never seen the film, here's the trailer for it that conveys quite a bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qacVovZLSwE&feature=related
Now, it seems quite unlikely to me that such an operation would go unnoticed for long. It would have to be extremely sophisticated in order to stay off the radar.
However, that's fairly irrelevant to the topic: my question is, do you think that the actions in hostel are morally permissable? I suppose this is a bad way to present it, because it's a silly question to most as the operations of Hostel were entirely everything most consider immoral
If I were to rephrase it a different way: is it justified to torture others for one's own pleasure? As the trailer for the first says, it's about experiencing "...anything you desire"; also, is sadism a part of human nature, to an extent?
As for me, it depends: if the people are bad people, I would not have a problem with it; they're bad, and I might as well enjoy what use they can be to me; However, I would never bring myself to harming innocent people. That's my main objection to the idea.
For those of you that have never seen the film, here's the trailer for it that conveys quite a bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qacVovZLSwE&feature=related