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#484 - Cosmic Skeptic - 8 Impossible Thought Experiments
Modern Wisdom
Is It Worse to Kill More Innocent People?
Killing one to save ten is roughly the same as, like, i don't know, killing like 500 to save ten thousand. As you pile up the suffering, it's proportional impact needs to be accounted for. The point of a right is that it's inviolable and doesn't matter how many people are being saved. A violation of that right is a bad thing. And so if i violate your right to save one person or to save ten people, it doesn't make a difference. Can't violate it. Doesn't matter what suffering is going on here. So maybe it would actually be worse because you're violating rights in such a way that it's actually just immune to
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