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We're killing a lot more people than that; if we'd just tax the rich at 80% and send all that money abroad, we'd save millions more. Failure to do that is mass
by harshreality 3mo ago
We're killing a lot more people than that; if we'd just tax the rich at 80% and send all that money abroad, we'd save millions more. Failure to do that is mass murder, the same as decreasing foreign aid funding; that is your thesis, right, that it's mass murder?
Doing less to save people in other countries that have no legal demand on our treasury is not "being responsible for [their] deaths." It's tragic, and it may even be a bad policy decision, but there's no responsibility (in the "duty to prevent harm" sense) or evil there.
- Gigachad 3mo agoThe deaths happened because the funding was yanked immediately without time to reorganize and re-source funding elsewhere. Rather than being slowly wound down with with enough warning time. Elon Musk's actions killed hundreds of thousands of people. While not resulting in any savings at all for the government.
- altcognito 3mo agoProposing false dichotomies isn't really an argument. You've created a strawman. There is a balance to be struck.
- margorczynski 3mo agoNo, he simply extrapolated this idiotic reasoning to its absurd conclusion.
- intended 3mo agoHow? By that method you could compare a pebble to the moon and say you were extrapolating. The only way you would do that is if you didn’t understand the shape/limits of the structures being compared.
- jack_pp 3mo agohttps://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-ever...
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