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"Crazy person A wants to kill every person of an specific ethnicity that makes up 5% of the human race Crazy person B wants to kill 10% of all humanity, but the people killed are randomly sampled from the population Who would you set loose?" -Poll credit

@rmbalt

Person A
47.7%
Person B
52.3%

2,220 votesFinal results

3:05 AM · Jan 9, 2020

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B will never succeed, A almost has

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Can I choose the less capable of the two people? I want to dumbest, most bumbling maniac. Or better yet, the laziest. Final answer: whichever of them is laziest.

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person b but because he's killing more people

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guessing person B is more likely to be stopped

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B, because a basic principle of social vestedness is that we share security burdens equally.

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It's mean we have to pick one to see how the vote is going

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More than 2 in five people would rather hundreds of millions of additional deaths than to appear racist.

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*looking up what ethnicity makes up 5% of the human race*

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There’s an argument here that A is more destructive. B takes more human life, but A destroys more than just people - it destroys a culture, a way of life, the super organism that is a people.