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Ah, 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 pers
by throwaway56745 6y ago
Ah, 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.