Hoooo. You went deep there. Well done!
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From a utilitarian standpoint you’re amortizing the same amount of suffering over more people. If anyone should live there, everyone should
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I was actually thinking about that, hard agree :D
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now wait a second... Omelas has one child and presumably a relatively fixed population size. We have no historical data to extrapolate from w.r.t scaling behavior of the child-suffering engine. Not safe to assume its constant.
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also can one child be replaced with the suffering of, say, a chicken battery farm, what's the exchange rate here
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shit man now we gotta figure out a metaphysics of suffering or something. fuck it, let's just do it anyway.
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let's do it and be legends, man
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The ones who ask people to solve trolley problems in Omelas.
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The Ones Who Drop Napalm On Omelas For Like Three Days Straight
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Listen to episode 8 of
@martyrmade podcast. It's about Omelas as a metaphor for culture as sublimation.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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