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Episode #088 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 3 - The Great Debate

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Is the Unforgivable Cost of Ending One Innocent Person's Life Now Worth the Elimination of the Suffering of Millions?

Stephanie West: Is the unfortunate cost of ending one innocent person's life now worth the elimination of the suffering of billions of people to come? She asks if you feel yourself leaning towards the yes in answer to this question, consider this, how about a hundred lives to end the suffer billions? O about ten thousand? How about ten million lives? I don't know if much changes about the moral underpennings of that choice, but the way we feel about it certainly does. It might be tempting to just sort of, you know, hitch your wagon to kamu and say, look, sartra, look, men, i don't know what you're talking

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