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jstanleyyesterday at 2:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

Saving any nonzero amount of lives for any unbounded cost is not necessarily a good trade, if there are ways to save more lives for the same cost, or the same number of lives for a lesser cost.


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Kinranyyesterday at 2:31 PM

The actual volume here is tiny, so the costs pale in comparison to political and economic consequences

cbg0yesterday at 2:33 PM

We're not at the point of making those kind of decisions in Romania, fortunately. Politically right now it would be very dangerous to say that "some of you may die".