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What are the limits of this argument? Let's say, entirely hypothetically, that our adversaries have found that weapons testing on prisoners helps them iterate b
by AlotOfReading 2y ago
What are the limits of this argument? Let's say, entirely hypothetically, that our adversaries have found that weapons testing on prisoners helps them iterate better. Must we copy it? Repeat for every new level of depravity you can think of.
Put another way, how is this not simply an argument that might makes right?
- busterarm 2y ago"Being on the right side of history" is a really shit prize if its cost is "you're dead".
- AlotOfReading 2y agoNo one knows the future, so you're actually arguing the possible downside of losing justifies any actions to mitigate it, regardless of cost.