“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by throwawayaway on Saturday August 22, 2015 @04:11PM (#10103600)

I certainly think 20,000 deaths is worse than 10,000 deaths yes.

I believe there is a much greater discrepancy than 2x, between the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and ongoing drone strikes inflicting civilian casualties, and Chinese incursions into Tibet.

That's not to say I support China in their incursions into Tibet. I am very sympathetic to those who have had atrocities committed towards them.

I do think however that the scale of a crime is important, and can be compared.

With the numbers you can make meaningful comparisons. This person committed two murders, this person committed one. To suggest all atrocities are equal is weak.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by throwawayaway on Saturday August 22, 2015 @05:32PM (#10103850)

Well we have completely opposing views in that case. I think if you cannot compare atrocities or crimes you are suffering from sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies (i.e. morally bankrupt) but I say that as an armchair psychologist, much like you say what you say as an armchair moralist.

I think given any number of examples you would gladly compare crimes and atrocities and quite easily state which you think is worse.

Society does this also, you can usually find it expressed in the sentencing for crimes.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by kjs3 on Saturday August 22, 2015 @06:48PM (#10104074)

I think if you cannot compare atrocities or crimes you are suffering from sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies

So because I don't tier atrocities into more or less horrifying based on numbers and treat them all as a negative means I have "sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies"? Doesn't take much to understand you don't know what those words mean, including moralist and psychologist.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by throwawayaway on Saturday August 22, 2015 @06:59PM (#10104102)

We both treat them as negative, however that you are unable to appreciate differences in extent raises serious questions for you, yes.

Society seems to be able to distinguish between different crimes and atrocities, yet you seem unwilling in this case.

Suggesting that those who can make such comparisons are morally bankrupt is quite a stretch, don't you think?

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