Well yeah and medical ethics in our world assumes a functioning society where the existing balance of life and death in the status quo is considered acceptable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Mishyana and
I could say something extremely incendiary here, but I won't. So instead I'm just going to say "yeah, destroying your sole existing sample on the chance of a vaccine is also a really bad idea."
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Mishyana and
At some point you're just fighting against the authors for writing the setting to be what it is though Like you might as well argue that they shouldn't need a cure in the first place because the mutant Cordyceps shouldn't exist because it doesn't make sense
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Mishyana and
Excuse me, Mr. "I will literally rather destroy the entire ship for the Cold Equations"?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Mishyana and
I'm not saying Joel's decision was wrong, or Ellie's Everyone's decisions were morally correct, and led to devastation and ruin, that's the nature of a tragedy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
The whole thing with refusing to let a tragedy be a tragedy is picking sides, being like "Well if one of them had just admitted they were the asshole this could've been avoided"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Joel absolutely will not sacrifice his daughter's future for anyone else Neither will Jerry They are, in this respect, the same They just have different daughters That's where the tragedy comes from
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Yeah, Jerry in fact rushes to operate BECAUSE a single day of delay could be the day that Abbie gets "ripped to pieces by a pack of clickers." He does it FOR Abby, more than anything.
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Replying to @TellerGrim @arthur_affect and
Yeah I don't buy that. And even if that is the case, it's still "murder a defenseless teenage girl so that MY daughter can maybe live in peace."
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Replying to @loudpenitent @TellerGrim and
Well, yeah, that's also Joel's morality, they're not different
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Joel obviously goes on his rampage *because it's Ellie* and not for any reason, certainly not that this is an inherently evil and dishonorable act He's made it quite clear he's committed plenty of those
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