context also heavily welcome.

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    2 days ago

    Probably one a few weeks ago where I said civilised people shouldn’t condone murder even if the victim is a bad person.

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      2 days ago

      It’s like the Trolley Problem, though. If the death of one person might cause fewer other people to die, could it be justified?

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      The thing is that symbolic murders can have consequences so good they greatly outweight the bad action. That’s why we killed our king in france. Sure killing is bad, and he wasn’t that guilty as he was just dumb, but killing him changed the world for good