• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        24 hours ago

        As a consequentialist, killing evil people can have nothing but bad outcomes. What you described is basically praise of what the USA has done in the middle east for over 80 years.

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          23 hours ago

          Yeah they totally shouldn’t have killed any nazis in World War Two. Only bad outcomes from that one.

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            23 hours ago

            In WWII were we fighting to kill all the factory workers, bankers, and farmers who benefited from the Nazis while leaving the Nazis themselves alone or were we fighting the soldiers and politicians who created and protected the Nazi Dictatorship?

            Luigi didn’t kill a politician who opposed socialized healthcare. Luigi didn’t reduce the number of private healthcare firms by one single bit, it’s only set to go up under the new administration.

            Even the Nazis went to trial.

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                  8 hours ago

                  No, you’re trying to be an absolutist about something you cannot be an absolutist about and it’s making you sound like a moron.

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                    4 hours ago

                    I think I understand your confusion. The statement was never absolutist. It was:

                    Killing evil people CAN have [nothing but negative outcomes.]

                    It does NOT say:

                    Killing evil people WILL have [nothing but negative outcomes.]

                    To reiterate the statement for you, it says that a murder does not always yield any beneficial results. Does that help you?

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          3 days ago

          The ambiguity of that abbreviation means you could well be arguing for Mangione and his methods, not against him.

          And if you meant Universal rather than United, most of the folks in countries with it don’t want to lose it. Better to worship that than profits, don’t you think?