> contemplate the possibility that human lives are worth saving.
Here fucking here.
What do we want to accomplish with the most advanced civilization history has ever seen? Advertising? A flourishing human condition? Fart apps? All? None? Anarchic meritocracy? It's all on the table.
This is one of the most profound and insightful comments on this page, and I wish I could upvote it more than once.
Did we come all this way so that we could buy a second SUV for 25 people, or do we instead want to save a human being with a life full of potential (and spare incredible grief from at least two other persons in the process)? We should do a cost benefit analysis! [0]
Thanks. I was actually thinking about that when I wrote it, but opted for full-on indignation of the moment, rather than calm and contemplative dictionary checking.
Here fucking here.
What do we want to accomplish with the most advanced civilization history has ever seen? Advertising? A flourishing human condition? Fart apps? All? None? Anarchic meritocracy? It's all on the table.