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[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 242 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"I shot a guy in the head, but then a different guy moved into the house where he lived, so it wasn't that bad?"

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 1 month ago
[-] casmael@lemm.ee 54 points 1 month ago

Yeah so it’s not as scary as people think

[-] norimee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

"I shot 1/4 million people in the head...."

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

But none of them were deputies!

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

Except there wasn't even a house left. There was a smoking patch of ground that a different guy moved to.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

This is the classic argument against act utilitarianism. It's textbook ethics. Literally, every intro ethics textbook covers it.

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