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Kisama comments on Cleaning up the "Worst Argument" essay - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Yvain 06 September 2012 12:09AM

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Comment author: Kisama 07 September 2012 12:27:07PM -1 points [-]

If you don't kill any people, you won't kill innocent people. If you do kill some people, you might kill innocent people. Where is the equivocation?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 September 2012 02:19:50AM 2 points [-]

If you don't drive cars, you won't kill innocent people in auto-accidents. If you do drive cars, you might kill innocent people in auto-accidents.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 08 September 2012 03:32:59AM 0 points [-]

Well, I can cause fatal auto-accidents even if I'm not driving. But certainly my odds of killing an innocent person in an auto accident go up quite a lot if I drive a car.