Lumifer comments on Epilogue: Atonement (8/8) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 May 2015 03:05:52PM 1 point [-]

You would be horrified by killing one person, but as the numbers grow, the killings get more impersonal and therefore easier.

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" -- usually attributed to Stalin.