if you use arguments of the form "the objective death risk from X is much lower than Y so stop paying as much attention",
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
one interesting implication is you're not allowed to care at all about purely symbolic acts that kill zero people. e.g. violating corpses
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@VesselOfSpirit What about when those acts are correlated with future activity that kills people? (Psychopaths start with animal abuse, etc)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ContentOfMedia the point is that an act that kills N people might be correlated with more future murders than an act that kills 2*N people1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ContentOfMedia just as an act that kills 0 people might be correlated with > 0 future murders1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@ContentOfMedia although i think such correlations are only one reason to think there is an asymmetry
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