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This game can go on endlessly. What if hiring the teenagers mean they’re getting a salary, can help their families, and without the job they’d run off into the
by pavlov 4y ago
This game can go on endlessly. What if hiring the teenagers mean they’re getting a salary, can help their families, and without the job they’d run off into the jungle to join the warlord who runs a murder cult army? Turns out the community theatre prevented a massacre and one of the kids wins the Nobel Prize for her plays in fifty years.
- JamesBarney 4y agoI don't understand the purpose of your what if. Mine was specifically to be an intuition pump to see how valuable the OP thinks a theater is when weighed against actual lives. It's easy to say x is important where x is saving sea turtles, teaching kids to read, or repairing a community theaters. It's harder to say x is more important than y charity when y charity saves lives effectively.
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- didibus 4y agoYou did straw man the example though. It's very different to say that building the theater will kill the workers, as to say that the money could be used elsewhere to save someone in an immediately dire situation. Building a community theater with good working conditions might have a big impact on the community around it and could go end up saving lives down the road, or dramatically improving the quality of life of many. It's very hard to quantity the impact of the community theater against say feeding 100 people for one week. All these people could die the week after, was it really sustainable improvements or just temporary relief?