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Re:Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing p... by yters on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:23PM (#15262460)
If avoiding suffering is the issue ten anyone can be murdered morally under the right conditions. I can stab you in your sleep (painlessly), and that would be fine according to this criterion.
Re:Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing p... by ajmurmann on Saturday September 16, 2017 @12:24AM (#15262860)
It would certainly not OK unless you also painlessly kill my wife, family and friends. Of course I would still be afraid of it because we have the irrational existence bias built in. I'm not particularly upset about the fact that I didn't exist 100 years ago so why should I be upset about not existing 100 years from now as long as no suffering is involved. Of course knowing that our existence is about to end causes as agony due to our biases. That doesn't mean though that we as a rational society should allow these biased to set or goals. We need to take them into account though.
Re:Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing p... by pharrington on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:14AM (#15263195)
Morally, that is only true for the first iterative pass. We are social creatures.