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There probably IS a non-zero mitigating factor but there is also potentially a much larger non-zero cost to the control measures that can also result in loss of life, loss of life quality, or irreparable damage to the future.

though experiment. if you had to give up all your money, sell your house, half your liver, and one kidney to allow your parents 1 more hour on life support to talk about love and life. would you do it?

most people do not have the necessary moral framework in place to make a decision here. they operate on a rule-based “do the good thing” system that doesn’t actually define good. what is “good” is what everyone else is doing.

what everyone else is doing is of utter importance to this methodology. hence the emphasis of enemies and who is on my side and the moral crusading

it’s actually very virtuous in some sense. moral crusaders REALLY want to know the right thing because they cannot operate virtuously without a solid sense of tribe.

a pure rule base deontological stance has one core weakness. the greater the circle of the In Group the larger the circumference of the edge cases like the though experiment above.

the solution of dealing w/ those edge cases by increasing the size of the circle DOES solve those problems but see... a bigger bunch of NEW problems at the new edge.