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paper-machine comments on February 2016 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 February 2016 11:35:21PM 0 points [-]

Legally? No. They were not negligent. The Atlantis rescue mission would have been a heroic measure that could have easily killed yet more astronauts.

Morally? It depends on all this background evidence that we ourselves don't know and Greg merely speculated toward.

Comment author: James_Miller 05 February 2016 12:12:51AM 0 points [-]

Morally? It depends on all this background evidence that we ourselves don't know and Greg merely speculated toward.

Greg's core point, which you agreed was true, seems sufficient to morally dam them.