• Liz@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    You’ll have to be more specific about what blowing up the train maps to in real life before I can tell you whether or not doing so would also kill a shit ton of people.

    But to keep it in metaphor, there are also innocent people riding the train and blowing it up would kill them, too.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, if you made a habit of doing that we’d end to with more deaths and a lower quality of life overall.

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            5 months ago

            Most of them, sure. But killing them with any kind of regularity would have a number of knock-on effects that would severely decrease many people’s quality of life.

            If your friend has a brain tumor, you don’t point a gun to their head and shoot it out. You find brain surgeons and have them remove it under controlled conditions. Supposing you can’t find a brain surgeon, it would still be better to learn brain surgery yourself and do a careful and thorough job than it would be to just shoot your friend in the head and hope for the best.