Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for July 31, 2015
July 30, 2015
August 01, 2015
Transcript:
Ethics gets weird when you try to account for future results Lives saved by Batman = B Therefore, lives saved by the people who killed Batman's parents = (B-2)
emptc12 almost 9 years ago
I wonder if somewhere in CyberWorld, a digital universe in which game situations and characters are real, a tally is kept of all the people killed for amusement. My son used to play a game in which the main purpose seemed to cause destruction, and I’d ask, "Do you realize how much “human” misery and the millions in property damage you just made metaphysically?" As usual, he didn’t know what the heck I was talking about. He’s getting there, though.
Ida No almost 9 years ago
Is there a way to maximize this? Do we integrate over the entire human race, or can we just do population sampling?
Stephen Gilberg almost 9 years ago
Except that the killer(s) of Batman’s parents probably killed more than that.