It's like when Mark Wahlberg talked about finding out the Asian immigrant he beat the shit out of as a teenager didn't *actually* lose his eye from that incident, he lost his eye from a different, unrelated fight So the fuck what
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You beat him so bad everyone, including you, thought that's how he lost his eye It makes you exactly just as bad a person as if that's what had happened, the fact that you randomly didn't actually hit his eye socket in that particular fight means nothing
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The whole fucking deal with COVID-19 is without accurate test-and-tracing we'll never know for sure what happened or how to assign actual fault for specific cases But from a moral POV if you hold maskless indoor events and then people in your county all get sick, you did it
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This is a whole thing in moral philosophy, "moral luck" The fact that we change our judgment of how good or bad a person you are based on what actually happened, even if the outcome had nothing to do with you *Attempted* murder is a lesser crime than actual murder
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Even if the thing that made it "only" attempted murder is just your incompetence or the victim's strength/skill, not any moral choice on your part Or even if it was in fact a perfectly executed murder and it's absolutely pure dumb luck the victim survived
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And it's worse with stuff like "manslaughter" The difference between reckless driving being a citation for a few hundred dollars and landing you in prison for life depends 100% on the dumb luck of whether someone else was on the road when you were doing it
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And the COVID shit just rubs this in Extremely consequential moral decisions whose consequences can never be traced back And even if they are -- even if you're like "Sure I do risky shit and don't wear a mask but I keep on testing negative, so no harm no foul" -- you're an ass
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You know why you keep testing negative, it's not that God loves you or you're such a great person, it's that OTHER PEOPLE are being more careful than you -- THEY saved you from getting infected and you're doing nothing in return
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Like the whole old aphorism The Great Gatsby quotes about driving Bad drivers don't know they're bad drivers as long as everyone they meet on the road is a good enough driver It usually takes *two* bad drivers to have an accident
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