It seems to be the most straightforward case to break apart the granular nature of cause and effect. Significant numbers of steps and time delay before death.
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Interesting… I would have guessed that the opposite was true, that shooting examples seem compelling because the connection between cause and effect is thought of as particularly simple and direct.
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Murder is the primal action, all more innocuous actions partake of its nature (if only because they murder the alternative universes where a different action was taken)
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You’ve been smoking modal realism
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Photons and detectors are nice.
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A bit dry for my taste, but much better than meaningless murders, yeah
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Or shooting people after they've been poisoned...
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I guess it's become an empty convention, but murder is kind of obvious subject for the social praise/blame aspect of causation. IMO causation is at least two different things. The what-actually-affects-what manipulation causation of Pearl and scientific inference, and
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