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Re:Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced dis... by JohnBooty on Saturday July 04, 2020 @12:30AM (#23730131)
There could certainly be many scenarios where killing somebody might make ethical sense - self defense, the "Trolley problem", etc.

I meant to describe a situation decidedly not of that nature.

Imagine our friend wants to kill ten people for no remotely defensible reason. Perhaps our hypothetically murderous friend is high on hypothetical PCP and is clearly suffering some kind of psychotic breakdown.

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Re:Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced dis... by imperfect_blue on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:12AM (#23731529)
...then it's great that at least they're talking about it on some forum, giving us a chance to persuade them otherwise and to call the police. If we didn't have such a forum, they might already have started their murder spree.
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