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Old 08-30-2020, 10:30 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by SebC View Post
I would not equate the life of a terrorist to the life of an innocent. Therefore the terrorist's life is worth less property to save than the life of an innocent as well. If this is a trolley that's either going to hit a house or a person, surely it matters that the person isn't tied to the tracks but created the whole trolley problem in the first place by wilfully standing in the way.
That assumes that the terrorist chose to be a terrorist as opposed to being born into a specific set of circumstances that would have led most or even all people to become terrorists. Essentially you could be condemning a person solely because they lost a dice roll.

If the Universe is deterministic valuing property over person would be fairly evil.
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