• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Just a reminder to people: if you remove anyone who has (or will have) children, from a certain moral perspective you’re responsible for them never existing, which could be considered akin to murder. Just take that into account in your considerations. Might make this a much thornier question, ethically, for some.

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      2 days ago

      Some of us are fine with murder when it comes to the relative outcomes. If I can murder someone to save 100 lives (and there’s no doubt at all that it would), I wouldn’t even flinch before driving the knife into their skull.

      In this hypothetical, we already know our targets body-count. So it’s easy to make the math work.

      Personally, I’d remove Ronald Regan.

    • rtxn@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      That’s just sophistry. You can’t kill people who never existed in the first place.