ok i’m goign back on forth on if it is ethical to save the random person actually but it’s definitely* ethical to not
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okay we can throw tomatoes at ash now
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boooo!!
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I guess I should clarify that I was thinking about this in the context of political assassinations, which throws a pretty hefty wrench into it.
If you could save people by assassinating someone else, but the downstream effects of this would likely cause more/other people to die, is that ethical?
it again depends on statistics and a lot of context outside the knowledge we know
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with just what we know
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political assassination targets are not random people 
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anyhow I still lean towards it being not ethical
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I was referring to “saving people via assassination”, but that’s fair.
I asked a different question.
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let’s say each is 30yo
each lives to 80 normally
if they die at 30 minus 50
if two die at 40 minus 80
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Are those years necessarily worth the same, though?
Wouldn’t someone value their 20s over their 80s?
if something statistically causes more harm i won’t do it
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it’s the difference of 30 years
even if time somehow goes twice as fast past 40 versus less than 40 thats still a diff of 15
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this sounds like a politics thing you can’t say
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Being taken out back by the mods.
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soweli q!!
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see the reason truth or consequences works is cause its personal info
m trying to think of a question i can ask that tells me the most about other people en mass
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YES!
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uh.
If there were a sufficiently fulfilling & convincing simulation of real life & you weren’t harming anyone else by entering it would there be something inherently wrong with choosing to enter the simulation.
Let’s stipulate that you aren’t actually interacting with other real people & you can’t leave once you enter
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not really
it’s just not a good use of your time
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