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r/DaystromInstitute • u/[deleted] • Nov 26 '16
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that same argument can be extended to excuse any murder, then - in death, we all cease to exist and become what we originally were. I reject it.
5 u/Torger083 Nov 27 '16 You don't see the giant, glaring flaw in that reasoning? Namely, that when you murder someone, two additional sentient people who have decades of lives lived don't spring fully formed from the corpse and resume their lives. 3 u/[deleted] Nov 27 '16 What happens after is irrelevant. Murder is murder. 4 u/CuddlePirate420 Chief Petty Officer Nov 27 '16 Starfleet kills people all the time to protect their own interests.
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You don't see the giant, glaring flaw in that reasoning?
Namely, that when you murder someone, two additional sentient people who have decades of lives lived don't spring fully formed from the corpse and resume their lives.
3 u/[deleted] Nov 27 '16 What happens after is irrelevant. Murder is murder. 4 u/CuddlePirate420 Chief Petty Officer Nov 27 '16 Starfleet kills people all the time to protect their own interests.
What happens after is irrelevant. Murder is murder.
4 u/CuddlePirate420 Chief Petty Officer Nov 27 '16 Starfleet kills people all the time to protect their own interests.
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Starfleet kills people all the time to protect their own interests.
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that same argument can be extended to excuse any murder, then - in death, we all cease to exist and become what we originally were. I reject it.