Everyone is ranked on a spectrum of how much direct, concrete harm they've done to other people.
If you press a button, the worst 1% of these people in your country disappear from existence, and the memory of them is dulled to a faint dream.
Do you press the button?
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The people who do the most good often do the most harm. This needs to be expressed as net harm imo.
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will anyone know what has happened and be emboldened by the precedent set?
if not, it seems way wiser to take it apart and reverse-engineer it to prevent anyone from making anything like it again
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I think it is better to try to identify what factors allowed those people to cause so much harm and address those, rather than just kill the people.
There seems to be a trend in writing people off as unsalvageable or evil and I don't think that's reasonable
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I wonder about the correlation with yes here and the support of the death penalty
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Would like to think that I’d actively work to dismantle this system if it existed
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The plot twist is, since the memory of those people’s existence is dulled, you are compelled to press the button again and again, always erasing 1% of the “bad people”, until no one is left.
Now timking about it, it’s like making a error, just to forget it and make it again.
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