Ep: 109 ”Objective Morality I: The Principle of Optimism”
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Intent Is Everything
Suicide bombers apparently feel nothing but positive emotions of joy, ecstasy and elation. So do such people have evil intents? On the one hand, clearly not. They are motivated by deep love as perverse as this may seem. Their intentions don't matter to the evil of the matter at hand. There is a clear difference between accidentally knocking someone into traffic and deliberately pushing them. In either case, a civilized legal system shows compassion. But in the former, where it's an accident, it might very well result in no jail time at all.
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