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Old Sep 8, 2006, 03:34 pm   #34 (permalink) (top)
PatrickHenry
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Life is worth a certain amount of money--that is, there is a certain amount of money that could almost absolutely be used to save a life somwhere on this planet. With that in mind, from a utilitarian point of view, sure, if it is enough money kill the person and donate it immediately to some life-saving charity.

How could you not justify killing someone for a few billion dollars when those dollars, placed in the right hands, could save the lives of potentially hundreds of thousands of people? One life is not worh more than thousands.
That's a new one! Sure! The philanthropist hitman!

Why didn't I think of that?


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