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It's kind of like a reverse firing squad: we won't choose to kill 1 person with 100% certainty, but we will choose to kill 1,000,000 people with a probability o
by tlrobinson 10y ago
It's kind of like a reverse firing squad: we won't choose to kill 1 person with 100% certainty, but we will choose to kill 1,000,000 people with a probability of 0.000001 each.
- Kalium 10y agoWhen your choice is 1,000,000 people with 0.0001 each or those same 1,000,000 people with 0.00000001 each, it starts to seem like a really silly question. Every human life is unique, special, and sacred. Yet, we cannot ethically permit ourselves to be paralyzed by this to the point where we refuse to reduce the amount of avoidable death because our options are not perfect.