Re:Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ...
by trhway on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:31PM
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>That doesn't mean one can't make moral judgments about which side is more or less evil, just that it's hard to be impartial
one would think it would be easy - just compare counts of innocents killed by each side. Unfortunately that would frequently make a "good"(winning) side look like a bad side and so they force other and more complicated criteria like this:
> it depends on what your values are.
Re:Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ...
by sgift on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:20PM
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> one would think it would be easy - just compare counts of innocents killed by each side.
It would also be a very flawed measurement unless you count the innocents the "evildoers" wanted to kill. The difference between what Hitler achieved (and that's already horrible) and what he wanted to achieve is rather big.
Even Hitler and Stalin thought they were the good guys.
That doesn't mean one can't make moral judgments about which side is more or less evil, just that it's hard to be impartial., and in the end of the day, like in politics, it depends on what your values are.