Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

Re:Type in the exact number of machines to proceed by Aeolun on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @08:39PM (#24913699)

Doing A cannot be the right thing to do if you think doing B is still impossible.

If you cannot kill your friend to kill a few hundreds of thousands more, how can it possibly be justified? I just struggle to come up with a scenario where that is the case.

Of course I’m of the school that thinks firing nuclear weapons is never a good idea.

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Re:Type in the exact number of machines to proceed by chrisseaton on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:19AM (#24916464)

But ‘know you should’ is not the same as ‘can physically bring yourself to do it’.

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Re:Type in the exact number of machines to proceed by jai_ on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:17AM (#24918356)

But that is the exact point. Having a human interlock explicitly shifts the dependency. Knowing that you should launch nukes is no longer enough and being able to bring yourself to physically kill someone is the additional requirement that we are _deliberately_ adding to this process despite there not being an obvious logical link between the two actions before.

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Re:Type in the exact number of machines to proceed by Aeolun on Thursday October 29, 2020 @07:42AM (#24929437)

If you cannot bring yourself to cut one person open (for the good of all) you have zero business launching nuclear weapons (for the good of all).

I kind of feel like we’re going in circles though, so maybe better to just stop here :)

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