James_Miller comments on Rationality Quotes December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 10 December 2014 07:04:31PM 2 points [-]

Forgive my fulfilling of Godwin's Law, but if a Nazi leader repeatedly told Hitler "Don't kill the Jews because struggling against them in the economic marketplace will make Germans stronger" would you consider this leader a "good guy"?

Comment author: Lumifer 10 December 2014 07:15:15PM *  2 points [-]

No, I would not.

And the equivalent position, actually, would be "Do not kill all the Jews at once, keep on killing them for a long time because the struggle will keep the Germans morally pure".

The intent matters.