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[–] 20 points 2 months ago* (7 children)

It’s wrong to wish people dead

I had this attitude 20 years ago. I no longer do. I've come to realize that there are certain rich fucks who are actively harming humanity directly (Hitler, Kissinger, Reagan, world leaders who send the poor to useless wars), and if they died and their death prevented more suffering, that's a good thing for humanity. Even the rich fucks that just hoard money are actively robbing from the poor to do so, and some of those people die as a result.

How many people does a person have to kill before they are too far gone to save, and are just evil? How many levels of indirection does it take before they wouldn't be considered evil? What happens if a person indirectly kills millions of people? Is that still far enough to call them evil?

These are the questions you should ask yourself when you try to plot out your own moral compass.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    certain rich fucks who are actively harming humanity directly (Hitler, Kissinger, Reagan, world leaders who send the poor to useless wars

    Ok, so which of those examples was this guy most like? Lol

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The wealth hoarders immediately after that part you quoted.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    "actively robbing the poor" and "actively killing masses of poor people" are two different levels of evil.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Are they, really?

    Poor folks go through a lot as a result of being poor. It's hard to express how miserable the constant stress is, and it's not hard to understand how constant stress and the things we do to try and cope with it directly shorten lives.

    Yeah, merely inflicting suffering on innocent people isn't quite as bad as killing them outright but it's such a small difference that I don't see a lot to be gained from trying to differentiate them.

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