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So if you murder someone with an assault rifle, you're a monster, but if you did it with your bare hands, your methods should be applauded and studied?

I'm not even going for reductio ad absurdum here, this seems to literally be what you're saying.



Did I at any point make a value judgement, as you did?

I simply said, as did dcposch, that to talk about ethics independent of ability is useless from a functional perspective. And to go farther, that applying anything other than amorality to internet actors is without functional value.

A rebuttal, if you feel otherwise, would take the form of "No, I believe pure ethical evaluation is still useful because..."


I think it's more like it's ethical to murder little kids and weak people because it's easier to do than murdering well-built man.




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