Thread: Maemo Morality
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#76
Originally Posted by Dak View Post
The mention of Hitler was part of highlighting that you simply do not truthfully know that saving the five is 'better' than saving the one. Ultimately, the only remaining argument (save the five because there's more of them) reduces to an example of mob rule - that simple weight of numbers denotes righteousness. A horrible fallacy, and one that has enabled much historical evil.
So, what you are saying is that, say, the concept of quarantines should be abandoned ? There is no way of knowing if the cancer cure dude gets killed because of it or that the disease would not kill Hitler if left to spread. You're awfully close to fatalism
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