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-31 Post author: waitingforgodel 10 December 2010 08:27AM

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Comment author: shokwave 10 December 2010 06:55:45PM 0 points [-]

The expected value of murder in any case only comes out positive if there are more than 7,000 people on average at risk from the action - which will happen when there are 7 billion people on the planet and I am 100% convinced the actor is going to perform the action once, OR there are 6.5 billion people on the planet and I am 54% convinced the actor is going to perform the action twice, OR 6.5 billion, 36% sure of three actions... etc.

I'd say that since I've only been talking about doing things well within my legal rights (using the legal system), that talking about murdering me is a bit "cultish"...

I can't speak for the legal system but "one death for 6570 lives" vs "6570 deaths for one blog post" speaks for itself.