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What do people think of "Planning a Rational Murder" as a discussion topic?
Note: You should probably not actually try to make murder easier in general by posting rational methods of committing murder, to say nothing of actually murdering anyone.
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Very strongly opposed. Promoting rationalism on the question of whether to commit murder is fine (the answer is pretty much always no). Promoting rationalism on how to commit murder is bad, as in directly harmful to humanity; and if such a conversation started here, I would support deleting or sabotaging it.
Fun fact: my reply to CuSithBell was an intentional effort to sabotage this conversation before it began by reframing it as a joke.
I interpreted the topic as a joke before I even joined in! I apologize if I did not make this sufficiently clear.
Yeah - I think it's safe to say that the illusion of transparency has struck again.
Oh well. To be clear to future generations: generally speaking, murder is one of those things you shouldn't do even if you should.
Unless, you REALLY want to.
In which case you definitely shouldn't!
I suggest your estimate of whether my post was intended to solicit murder advice was overly high.
Actually, that wasn't my interpretation at all (that possibility didn't really cross my mind). I was thinking more of unintended audiences - ie, third parties who might find it from search engines.
Ah! That seems more sensible.
I would not be worried about people looking for instructions on how to murder someone nearly as much as I would be worried about officials who could find it.
Given our lack of experience or research, I do not think we could give very useful pointers. (I hope...)