Is it wrong that I feel more depressed when I hear a story about a priceless artifact stolen/lost/destroyed than, say, a murder? Maybe...
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Replying to @SIN_Notung
@SIN_Notung But if you watched a murder in progress, I'd bet you'd be very keen to prevent it, even if it meant sacrificing artefact....1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp I was just thinking that exact thing actually, and I agree, I almost certainly would save the person.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SIN_Notung
@SIN_Notung victim. (Given how many victims there are, how much suffering there is in the world, etc).1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp I think that's mostly it, but there is a sense that we're all just going to die anyway, but the Mona Lisa 'should' live on.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SIN_Notung
@PhilosophyExp As in, it's a connection to an artist/period that would be lost not by us, but by future generations too; makes it worse.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@SIN_Notung Right. But partly the point I'm making is that there's a disjunction between complicated moral arguments about what one ought to
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