Is there a principled distinction between suicide-bombing and falling on a grenade to save your squad?
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Replying to @KevinSimler
@KevinSimler temporally and causally, yes, very different. The common element is willingness to self-sacrifice for one's tribe, sure.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @CTZN5
@KevinSimler but the beneficial outcome to the tribe of the grenade-dive is near-certain, d/t causal and temporal proximity1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@KevinSimler the long tail there being, what good could the dead guy have done if he'd lived1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler the suicide bombing is the opposite. All hope lies in the long tail, that it will matter somehow, somewhen, eventually2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @CTZN5
Kevin Simler Retweeted Kevin Simler
@CTZN5 But why is that important? Seems like a difference of degree more than a difference of kind. See alsohttps://twitter.com/KevinSimler/status/662480618362691584 …Kevin Simler added,
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Replying to @KevinSimler
@KevinSimler yeah, chaos theory and game theory lets me clearly do this. Grenade-dive saner by very many orders of magnitude1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CTZN5
@KevinSimler or maybe, in the mode you're considering this, it's a difference of degree, indeed; but it's an astronomically large degree2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @KevinSimler
@KevinSimler The grenade-dive is quite a bit saner than that as well, though soldiering is also more sane than suicide bombing1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@CTZN5 @KevinSimler "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his."
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Replying to @paulbaumgart
@CTZN5@KevinSimler (This thread was suffering from a severe lack of mildly relevant Patton quotes.)0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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