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Originally Posted by BoLevi
It's axiomatic that people put a lower value on human lives that are either more geographically distant, socially distant, or even culturally distant.
We then reverse engineer our moral imperatives to accommodate this natural instinct.
I see no evidence to suggest that this mentality is modifiable, so discussing such moral dilemmas is somewhat pointless.
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That doesn’t mean it’s morally right. A human life’s value is equal should be a universal maxim. Maybe age dependant at most.