Will_Pearson comments on Ethical Inhibitions - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2008 08:44PM

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 19 October 2008 10:39:18PM 2 points [-]

Nelson Mandela comes to mind as someone who took up violence as a last resort, and wasn't too bad as a leader in the end.

American revolutionaries as well ended human lives for the greater good, and I'm sure there was a fair amount of agitprop. Could have had worse governance after.

Remember soldiers are people too! Even enemy soldiers who beat you up or imprison you. If the ends never justify killing people, then there should never be any insurrections...