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Re:The Acceleration of Addictiveness by Loy on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @05:17AM (#1550705)
You'd kill a random person in the street for a world without alcohol, and you think PG statement is "extremely, unbelievably selfish". Why the idea of sacrifying yourself instead didn't come first ?
Re:The Acceleration of Addictiveness by cousin_it on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @06:25AM (#1550789)
Yep, I'd sacrifice myself if that was what was asked instead. The reason I mentioned "killing a random person on the street" is that it's more informative - it sets a higher bar for the required world improvement. My morals say that killing someone else without reason is strictly worse than killing myself, so there exist possible world improvements for which I'd agree to kill myself, but refuse to kill a random person.
Re:The Acceleration of Addictiveness by alexro on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @07:16PM (#1553046)
Your decision is not fully weighted as you don't know if in the world without wine people won't invent another much more dangerous thing that will ruin the lives of even more people and which will be even more harder to consume casually.