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Is Effective Altruism to Blame for Sam Bankman-Fried?: Although it is wrong to kill one person to save five people, the authors write, “Almost all ethicists agree that these rights and rules are not absolute. If you had to kill one person to save 100,000 others, most would agree that ... explodingcomma.com
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JohnBrady
JohnBrady

@petebrown I'm reminded of Christian just-war theory: people don't use it to actually decide if a war is just; they just say "there's something called just-war theory, so this war is OK."

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