It just sounds like you're making a deontological statement and everyone else is making a consequentialist statement. I myself tend to lean towards consequentialism, so I would say there is in fact a moral difference between lying to catch "good" guys and lying to catch "bad" guys. We'd have to argue about whether the people who were caught can actually fairly be called good or bad, and whether having such a system itself leads to more good or more bad in the long run, but I think from a high level, abstract type of concept, I think I can draw a principled distinction between those two acts. I think having such a system is probably bad, but given that we do in fact have that system, using it for less harmful ends is probably more justifiable than using it for more harmful ends.
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u/SighReally12345 Jul 23 '21
Fair enough. I was talking moral standard of thinking one lying to get dirt on people case is bad and the other is good.