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Comment author: Bill_McGrath 27 August 2013 05:46:07PM 2 points [-]

I have a moral question.

Is it better for the last million people of a certain population to die, or for two million people all around the world, randomly selected and evenly distributed, to die? For the first group, their death would not just result in loss of human life, but potentially loss of a lot of cultural information; their language, their religion, their mythology and folklore, their music. I feel like this cultural information has value.

Thoughts?

Comment author: drethelin 28 August 2013 07:07:13PM 0 points [-]

people are mostly interchangeable. i'd save the million.