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Comment author: MileyCyrus 10 January 2012 02:44:02AM 0 points [-]

So if the state of Georgia offers me $20,000 to execute Troy Davis; I can take the money, donate $10,000 to an efficient charity and enjoy the remaining $10,000 with a clean conscious?

Comment author: wedrifid 10 January 2012 02:45:44AM *  1 point [-]

I don't believe I said that anywhere, much less here. While in the immediate context my comment was ethically agnostic and made only an estimate of legal consequences.

What is it about moral questions that makes people so desperate to play reference class tennis?

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