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Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

Josef bugman posted:

But that isn't inherently good.

Let's say that I am building a people thresher, which is like a combine harvester but for people, and want to make it the most efficient people thresher it can be. I look at the best and most effective information to build something that is truly awful, and that people have great difficulty in avoiding and getting killed by. Is the truth, in this instance, an inherent good? Because it allowed me to build a machine that is at the upmost effectiveness for killing people?

I don't mean this as an attack, but you really need to take an "intro to philosophy" class, get :therapy:, or both.

I know I've brought up this Manichean good-or-evil dichotomy you seem to bring to every conversation you take part in before in USPol, but seriously dude, you need to reevaluate the way you look at the world.

Edit: to expand on this, something that is inherently good doesn't lose that status because it enables something evil to happen. To turn your argument around, mass shootings are evil, even if one of the victims would've grown up to design the perfect people-thresher.

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