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  • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    "I'd kill every last monkey, gorilla, and featherless chicken to save even one human life"

    "No, I wouldn't support a lockdown. Or a mask mandate. Or preventative healthcare. But I would support destroying vital ecology all of us ultimately depend upon."

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        3 years ago

        "A lockdown is too dystopian but we need to go take vengeance on the Chinese barbarians using the full might of our military"

  • LangdonAlger [any]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, how much do you value human life? How devoted are you to pacifism? How many homeless people do you go out of your way to serve? Oh, so you're pretending to be a humanist as an excuse to continue to destroy the planet and it's other inhabitants? Could you at least come up with your own quote and not steal one from Penn Gillette? No, that's asking too much? Okay, have a nice day.

    • Cheesewizzard [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Prolly around 7 monks per human or so? Funny to imagine such a trolly problem happening in real life. 7 monks and 1 human are each hanging off opposite edges of a building; you only have time to save one set.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        That would still be a very difficult question for a lot of people.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            If you picture that the human being is screaming in terrified fear for help I think it does. Picture the scenario in all its emotionally difficult reality, with the sounds and emotions involved.

            I think you could increase it to 30 in that scenario and it would still be difficult.

            In a clinical situation where you're just pressing one of two buttons and there's no emotion and no screaming or fall or anything like that? Changes completely and the individual involved might make a more rational decision based on numbers and weighing it up alone. But if you place them on top of a building with all the horror of the above pictured scenario I think it's absolutely fair to say you're going to see people struggle at 7, even some larger numbers. The screaming human is going to get a bigger emotional reaction from the rescuer.

              • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                Maybe you should reexamine why you feel that a human's life is inherently at least 70 times as valuable as the life of our closest relatives.

                If your response is "we're smarter though" then I guess you'd support killing 70 mentally disabled humans if it would save the life of one perfectly fit human which is pretty fuckin :yikes:

                • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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                  3 years ago

                  A lot of them are pretty cringe. Can I verify political ideology first? No bonobo has ever called me a slur.

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                Ahhh I see. I misunderstood you.

                Difficult one. I understand and agree with the moral arguments that I know someone is going to make any second now, but still think that I personally would struggle with the decision despite believing the ethics arguments. Emotions will take over.

                EDIT: Could also change if I'd bonded with any of the monkeys though. Weird

                • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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                  3 years ago

                  The emotional connection is the biggest factor. Very easy to prioritize whichever creature you’ve bonded with.

                  Most people would choose their dog’s or cat’s life over a random stranger and that’s fine.

              • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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                3 years ago

                I'm with you. I don't think it's like a equivalent exchange with 7 monkeys, like that's "worth" more than 1 human I guess (how do you value life), but I'd still definitely go with the human. Feel like I share a closer connection/duty to save my own species than others.

            • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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              3 years ago

              Meanwhile 70 screaming people to one 1 monkey makes sense to me. Basically if either side had more, I would probably(?) choose that.

          • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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            3 years ago

            You should spend some time at the primates section of your local zoo when it reopens if it doesn’t suck.

        • Cheesewizzard [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yep my partner’s monk (or really any vertebrae) to human ratio would be 1.

  • Woly [any]
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    3 years ago

    I would kill every human in the world. Huh? What do you mean, "to save apes?"

  • lutteurdeclasse2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    that's alwas been my stance but I always think or dogs/cats, apes are like my cousins, I certainly wouldn't kill every ape to save Matt Walsh

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    if a supervillain ever rigs up a guy to explode unless every ape on Earth is shot in the head we know to call Matt Walsh