quantifying moral responsibility

[loinburger]

That may be happening locally in western European countries where people are living forever and not reproducing, but that's going to disappoint luddites / nature freaks / reactionaries

[Sava]

living forever and not reproducing

[Sava]

It would be a more realistic mod if killing a hundred hookers = killing one yuppie = insulting a cop

yes

dammit this really seems like the darkest timeline

or maybe my imagination just sucks right now

[Aeson]

So on your GTA livestreams you could have a morality meter ... and you win if you get to Hitler level?

[Sava]

[Sava]

I think I've only killed around 12-13k people so far

someone needs to make a death camp sim

[onodera]

I had a thought last night. If something I did led to someone's death, I would feel pretty bad, maybe even if it was justified. Both our presidents are responsible for thousands of deaths. How do they cope with that? Do they not give a ****, because only sociopaths get that high up?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

There is a moral responsibility. Ignorance should not be an excuse.

How do you quantify it though?

There is no practical way, it will be quantified for us all once we have WWIII, the judgement day will not be very picky.

[Lorizael]

I had a thought last night. If something I did led to someone's death, I would feel pretty bad, maybe even if it was justified. Both our presidents are responsible for thousands of deaths. How do they cope with that? Do they not give a ****, because only sociopaths get that high up?

I've thought about that before, too. I suspect there's an extent to which they feel disconnected from the deaths they cause, because all they ever directly do is put their signature on some order. But I also suspect it's torturous for them to a degree. You only have to look at before and after pictures of past presidents to see how drastically they age in 4 or 8 years.

[Sava]

because only sociopaths get that high up?

I think so.

[Bereta_Eder]

There's a book written about that. The psychopathology of politicians.
But I haven't read it.

http://www.biblionet.gr/book/16234/%CE%9B%CE%AF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%82,_%CE%98%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82/%CE%97_%CF%88%CF%85%CF%87%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D

in easy to read greek

[Sava]

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QFT

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Republicans are responsible for everything bad.

[Sava]

k

[C0ckney]

good thread.

it is though i think strange to talk about responsibility for a politician's actions when the whole system of representative democracy is designed precisely to take away responsibility and control from the population. the very act of voting for someone to represent us is an abrogation of all responsibility on our part.