responsible person > good person
we could say that and it would be pretty obviously true, but i'm going for something slightly edgier, that the person who makes the actual choice to harm you is morally superior to the person who would never intend to but does anyway
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Yeah but that's the difference between murder one and manslaughter, isn't it? Uh, not that legal system and proper morals have anything to do with each other so uh carry on.
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God, being manslaughtered would be so insulting
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yeah i'm basically saying that the murder one defendant is morally superior to the manslaughter defendant
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I bump on the phrase "morally superior" but I actually do understand what you are saying; the one who takes the action to achieve the desired result has a purity, directness, and even respectability lacking in the one who takes an action without sufficient though to consequences.
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And probably does less harm overall
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Less _unintentional_ harm, at least.
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Well certainly that. But unless you're just into violence or whatever, I'd think that if you think through your actions to the degree that you only harm where necessary, you'd average out less than someone who blindly charges about being a Good Person and knocking everyone over
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So the Cask of Amontillado guy is causing less harm than like, a missionary family.
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Given that my definition of good (or maybe ethical, I must be honest and say I have no idea what good means) is behaving consistently with one's values, probably I am too far outside the lingua franca here
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I mean yeah I agree with that obvs, but I think that = good. Probably not by the popular definition though so carry on :)
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