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Re:New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in... by jjcon on Thursday August 18, 2022 @08:25PM (#32516402)
> think killing a million people "isn't all that bad".

Please read again, I said cars are not all that bad, if you are going to have discussion please assume good faith (see hn rules please https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Re:New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in... by inopinatus on Thursday August 18, 2022 @09:15PM (#32516705)
The hair doesn't split that fine. If something kills a million people, it's bad.
Re:New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in... by jjcon on Thursday August 18, 2022 @11:11PM (#32517263)
Things really can be good and bad. Cars I think by most accounts are good (do you disagree?), but they do lead to the deaths of a million+ every year, that is bad.

Junk foods like ice cream, pizza, soda etc. I think can be good but they also lead to the deaths of millions a year (albeit more indirectly). The world just isn't black and white. It is complex and there is nuance.

Re:New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in... by inopinatus on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:57AM (#32517676)
> I think can be good but they also lead to the deaths of millions a year

This discussion may as well end here, because I can have no meeting of minds with someone whose moral compass spins so freely as to wave away millions of human lives on frippery. The only other entity I've had a dialogue with willing to express a similar worldview was GPT-3. That AI was trained on a wide spectrum of human expression, so evidently someone out there agrees with such sentiment, but to me it's downright repugnant.