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Peter Angel's avatar

Oomfie 😔😔😔 I think the case for terrorism gets a lot less compelling if you take a squishier view of religion. Like being less concerned with the truth or falsity and take faith as more a sort of super organism for how to live and how to organize human societies.

People don't have sincere beliefs which is both very good and very bad.

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Philip's avatar

"When one dies, one feels pain, but then nothing more – upon someone’s death, they cease to be of any moral concern. What matters is what they think and feel before death. If someone knows that they might be killed, it causes fear. If someone is too young to feel fear or know anything, then there can surely be no harm in them being killed."

On this account, medical serial killers who are never caught do no wrong (assuming their methods are painless).

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Nicholas Decker's avatar

The family of the people killed lose out, hence why it is bad. Thus it is not so bad to hasten someone on death’s door, as it is to kill someone in the flower of youth.

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Philip's avatar

Suppose the medical serial killer takes care only to secretly kill people with no family or anyone who would be pained by their death. Then would it not be bad?

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Nicholas Decker's avatar

If they can ensure that, then it would not be bad, no.

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Philip's avatar

If you are a utilitarian, what about the fact that the medical serial killer is depriving his victims of future utility?

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