And then enter Parfit just to mess it all up for us! (NB what the Talmud means is genealogical, not one being more important than many.)https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1025934023783112705 …
I didn't read it as meaning (quite) either of those senses, actually; rather than when you save a single life, you save the world entire for that person and their descendants.
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You leave that option, chance, hope, version of future, opportunity open --- to have that whole group of people who wouldn't otherwise exist.
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Also v central in family narratives of Holocaust survivors (like my family), where you have n people hidden on an attic by one person, and when this person is old and dies, 10xn go to her funeral - all those she hid plus their spouses, children, grandchildren. So not only theory.
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