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It's a slippery slope (and mildly sociopathic) to start judging people's worthiness of being murdered (or sought justice for) based on whether they were a good
by throwaway56745 6y ago
It's a slippery slope (and mildly sociopathic) to start judging people's worthiness of being murdered (or sought justice for) based on whether they were a good or bad person.
Allocating resources based on how charming someone's photo is is also wrong, and worthy of discussion, though presumably people at least aren't doing that consciously.
Edit: I'm fairly disturbed that this appears to be controversial.
- zerocrates 6y agoI don't think there's any indication this person was murdered, nor that there's anybody to seek justice against.
- throwaway56745 6y agoAh, I guess that's on me for only skimming the article. Still, death is death. We shouldn't trivialize it just because the person in question wasn't a good person, which is what it felt like the GP was suggesting.
- renewiltord 6y agoThis is wholly platitudinous. There are individuals whose death is of near zero utility to me and individuals whose death is of positive utility to me even accounting for any knock-on effects of considering any human death trivial. I know one is usually meant to just nod when people say things like "all human life matters" and "no death is anything but horrible" and all that, but it's really not true. In fact, if I model people's actions I find that nearly everyone will nod along with those things but few people act in a manner that is consistent with that action.
- astura 6y agoThe article says one thing the investigators are sure of from the beginning is he died of "natural causes." Toward the end it seems like he might have starved to death or maybe of dehydration.