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edent • yesterday at 2:19 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

That isn't the way the world - or most morality systems - work.

A surgeon who saves a thousand lives doesn't get a pass for the one murder they commit.

If the person who eventually cures cancer also happens to be a rapist, do you remember their name with awe or pity?

The sort of Felicific Calculus practiced by the "Effective" Altruists is a tawdry trick designed to excuse despicable behaviour.


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NetMageSCW • yesterday at 9:32 PM

Ford and Edison seem to have done pretty well in the view of history.

WinstonSmith84 • yesterday at 2:39 PM

And yet you've a convicted felon who vacationed on Epstein island sitting at the highest office in the land, or even in the world.