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>On the other, I wonder how one can sleep at night with the knowledge one was directly responsible for thousands of deaths. He's not directly responsible for t
by logicchains 6y ago
>On the other, I wonder how one can sleep at night with the knowledge one was directly responsible for thousands of deaths.
He's not directly responsible for thousands of deaths. Not doing something that could have saved lives is different from actively doing something to hurt people. Otherwise we'd all be responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths because we didn't spend a bit of money to donate more mosquito nets to Africa, where a huge number of people die every year from preventable malaria.
- smt88 6y ago> Not doing something that could have saved lives is different from actively doing something to hurt people. What if your job is to do something to save lives? To take your analogy to its logical conclusion, you're also saying a firefighter isn't responsible for a building burning to the ground, even when he's standing in front of the building with a hose in his hand.
- toyg 6y ago> Otherwise we'd all be responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths [in] Africa I'd argue that we are (and not just for mosquito nets), we just rationalize it away and forget it. Distance helps a lot, in that sense. But this guy is likely to meet or talk to people who were directly affected by his decision, basically every day for the rest of his life.