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With a billion dollars one can save thousands of lives, which seems like a bigger deal than one person being tortured for a day. I can certainly see reasons for not taking that offer, but taking it doesn't seem very babyeaterish to me if the taker's intention is to use much of the money to do a lot more good than the donor does harm.
That seems to be conceding the point that it has moral weight.
"It" is the day's torture for the hostage? Yes, I think it has moral weight. I'm not sure why you use the word "conceding"; I never suggested that it doesn't, and I'm not sure anyone else did.