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Comment author: wedrifid 22 August 2013 02:26:19AM 3 points [-]

What about dust specks in the eyes of 3^^^3 poodles? Or more to the point, what is the moral cost of killing one person vs one poodle? How many poodles lives would we trade for the life of one person?

I observe that the answer to the last question is not constrained to be positive.

Comment author: Randy_M 23 August 2013 03:49:15PM 4 points [-]

"Letting those people die was worth it, because they took their cursed yapping poodle with them!"

(quote marks to indicate not my actual views)

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