Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> Wrote:
> What I don't like is the assumption that Iraqi or Afghan civilian
> casualties are acceptable - undesirable, perhaps, but acceptable - while
> American civilian casualties are unimaginable horrors.
It doesn't matter if you like it, it's the attitude American civilians would
inevitably take, Afghan civilians believe the same thing with just one
minor change. Three billion years of evolution has constructed us
in such a way that your death is bad but my death is an unimaginable
horror. Did you expect something else?
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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