https://xkcd.com/1968/ is #TheLastDerail in a nutshell. I can try to imagine hypotheses, but I'm not sure why Randall Monroe thinks this a clever thing to say. If I wrote a fictional character saying this straight out, I'd be accused of writing a 2D straw character.
Your failure to have an empathetic reaction if billions die instead of thousands appears as a virtue to yourself? Even to the point where you believe that your empathetic instincts should guide policy considerations?
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"Billions die" is a fact-in-dispute. You can't just declare it to be a fact-in-evidence without providing some, you know... evidence. "Virtue" is just stories we tell ourselves in order to simplify strategic decisions. What strategy do you think I'm pursuing here?
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I don't know. Rationalization of opinions you assimilated in the course of compulsive virtue signaling, perhaps?
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