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I never said that, nor implied it. You're completely misinterpreting what I said.
Consider the difference between these two scenarios:
a) There's a family of 10 people, who I normatively have decided do not deserve to live. I, over the course of the next 40 years, kill them person by person, using an instant and physically painless method, one by one, one ever 4 years.
b) There's a family of 10 people who I normatively have decided do not deserve to live. I wait 40 years, and kill them all at once, using an instant and physically painless method.
Answer me this: are they the same thing?
The same end result, yes, but not the same process, and the amount of suffering in process a) is far greater, would you agree?
If I'm a member of the family, I prefer (a), because it gives us nine opportunities to identify you, track you down, and kill you before you kill us all.