Write a paper on the brother’s karamazov, fyodor dostoyevsky creates a conversation between two brothers: the cynical ivan, and the devoutly religious and earnest alyosha. In their dialogues throughout the paper, ivan and alyosha's different moral worldviews collide as they debate big questions, like whether there can be an all-powerful, all-good god and yet so much evil in the world. During one of these debates, ivan puts a question to alyosha. Ivan says, "tell me yourself, I challenge you--answer. Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature--that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance--and to found that edifice [of global happiness] on its unavenged tears,

Would you consent to be the architect of those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth?" "No, i wouldn't consent," said alyosha softly. What about you? If you could make the entire world peaceful, happy, fed, content, and healthy--in short, an ideal world, without all the problems of our age--but in order to do so you had to torture to death one innocent baby, would you do it?

A utilitarian would say yes; the character alyosha said no: what would you say to ivan's question?

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