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Regarding your analogy: I think it would be more like taking the bikes of every homeless person as opposed to just the one. Would that make it more or less mora
by squigz 2y ago
Regarding your analogy: I think it would be more like taking the bikes of every homeless person as opposed to just the one. Would that make it more or less morally dubious?
- squigz 2y agoTo those downvoting, I'd certainly be curious to hear why.
- gameman144 2y agoI don't think it's quite like that, since there's no direct action aiming to antagonize poor North Korean citizens; they are suffering indirectly due to the harm done to the actual target. In the homeless analogy, maybe the attempted-robber's friends go hungry, since he usually uses the bicycle to go to the grocery store. To me, I don't imagine this changes the calculus much, since almost any intervention will have side-effects.