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Comment author: Lumifer 09 October 2014 02:56:38PM 4 points [-]

To buy an expensive pair of shoes (he says) is morally equivalent to killing a child.

I always find it curious how people forget that equality is symmetrical and works in both directions.

So, killing a child is morally equivalent to buying an expensive pair of shoes? That's interesting...

Comment author: [deleted] 10 October 2014 04:02:22PM 7 points [-]

I always find it curious how people forget that equality is symmetrical and works in both directions.

So, killing a child is morally equivalent to buying an expensive pair of shoes? That's interesting...

One man's modus ponens... I don't lose much sleep when I hear that a child I had never heard of before was killed.