h-H comments on Knox and Sollecito freed - Less Wrong

26 Post author: komponisto 03 October 2011 08:24PM

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Comment author: h-H 04 October 2011 02:06:54AM *  2 points [-]

upvoted for empathy remark, but I don't know JoshuaZ, a "slow painful, agonizing death" for a mistake sounds too vengeful to me..

Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 October 2011 02:10:00AM *  8 points [-]

Of course it does. There's no way that the driver deserved that in any sane moral system, or for that matter almost any moral system post the Middle Ages. It is a terribly vengeful, horrific desire. It scares me that I can have that sort of desire in me. I'm very much not in any way advocating that this is a good thing. The argument is solely that if one feels this way over a death from negligence what it must be like to respond to a death due to deliberate action?

Comment author: Crux 04 October 2011 02:16:57AM *  1 point [-]

The argument is solely that if one feels this way over a death from negligence what it must be like to respond to a death due to deliberate action?

Perhaps incredibly difficult to be rational in such a situation. Accordingly, I'd down-grade wedrifid's assessment of their behavior from "disgraceful" and "evil" to merely irrational and incompetent.