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Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by 12907835202 on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:44PM (#36760498)
(1) if one day a nuke was used to deflect an asteroid and save the entire planet, would that then outweigh any deaths caused by nukes and ottenheimer would be a hero rather than a villain? That's a tricky road to go down.

(2) as is trying to focus on intent. Do you want to risk absolving Hitler or Pol Pot because they thought they were making the world a better place?

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Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by oh_sigh on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:21PM (#36761079)
Oppenheimer is a villain? First I'm hearing about it.
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Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by toyg on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:02PM (#36761716)
Probably not popular in Japan.
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Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by bluefirebrand on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:32PM (#36762117)
> (2) as is trying to focus on intent. Do you want to risk absolving Hitler or Pol Pot because they thought they were making the world a better place?

I would argue that "trying to make the world better" is too broad to be an intent.

It's an ideal, or something. Maybe that's just language semantics.

As soon as you dig into that ideal at all, the malicious intent becomes extremely clear.

Ideal: "I am going to make the world a better place"

How?

Intent: "By purging lesser humans so my people can become the master race as we should"

Versus

Intent: "By volunteering my time to set up soup kitchens in the inner city"

Ideal leads to intent leads to action leads to outcome.

My opinion, anyways.

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