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“I shot a guy in the head, but then a different guy moved into the house where he lived, so it wasn’t that bad?”

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This is the classic argument against act utilitarianism. It’s textbook ethics. Literally, every intro ethics textbook covers it.

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Except there wasn’t even a house left. There was a smoking patch of ground that a different guy moved to.

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That’s great. That’s great.

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Yeah so it’s not as scary as people think

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“I shot 1/4 million people in the head…”

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But none of them were deputies!

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WTF

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