Re: virus: Tabacco mind virus: antivirii
Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 2 Aug 1997 03:20:49 +0100
In message <Pine.SUN.3.96.970801133443.14252B-100000@eskimo.com>, Eva-
Lise Carlstrom <eva-lise@eskimo.com> writes
>On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Tony Hindle wrote:
>> This is a hypothetical question so I want you to assume all
>> other things are equal. The law that one death is better than two is a
>> corollary of zero deaths is better than one. Will you judge in this
>> case?
>
>I know you're talking to Eric here, but I felt like jumping in here too.
>I'd say that *other things being equal* one death is better than two, or
>zero better than one. Of course, they rarely are.
But statistically we can expect other circumstances to cancel
out.
> And I'd also argue
>that there are times, other things being unequal, when one death would be
>better than none.
Well, it seems like you are taking the moral low ground from me,
unless you are refering either to voluntary euthanasia.
Actually I have just noticed you said "unequal". When?
Tony