There’s a big difference between inviting someone into your home and someone entering uninvited. There’s also a big difference between inviting one person into your home versus ten people.
I don’t know enough about these situations to comment on them. In isolation, a non-zero amount of suffering and death is obviously worse than none. But the world isn’t an isolated bubble like that. When you consider everything in its totality, it’s no longer so obvious what the correct objective should be, and that’s with the assumption that we can even even devise a measurable score for any of these objectives. Do we care for a lower bound on everyone’s quality of life? Do we want to maximize some quality of life average or total? Do we want to maximize the duration of human existence? Who is this “everyone”? Everyone alive today? Everyone who will ever exist? Do we give the same weight to every person? Or should we use some discounted weighting so that present humans get higher priority than future humans? Or should we put a cap on how much of our collective resources we can allocate to any given individual?
Whatever tangent you’re on about: I can’t experience anything anymore if I’m dead. And I’m sure as shit doing anything in my power not to die “for my nation”.
I don’t know. You brought up all those other scenarios. I don’t know how they’re relevant either.
Anyway, why would it not be a good thing if others want to put their lives on the line so that you can live your life in peace, or flee successfully if it comes to that?
why would it not be a good thing if others want to put their lives on the line so that you can live your life in peace
I reject the premise that this is what the military is doing.
I live in Germany and currently the German government is amping up militarisation which actively increases the risk of war with Russia which in turn endangers my life.
I live in Germany and currently the German government is amping up militarisation which actively increases the risk of war with Russia which in turn endangers my life.
Do you believe that Germany disbanding their military and turning over control of the country to Putin endangers your life less? Does this extend to everyone in your community? Everyone inside the geographical borders of Germany?
So if your land gets taken over, you’ll go somewhere else and take someone else’s land?
Is that hou you view refugees? As “taking someone else’s land”?
Ok, Mr Musk. /s
There’s a big difference between inviting someone into your home and someone entering uninvited. There’s also a big difference between inviting one person into your home versus ten people.
Ok. I’ll better not ask you about your opinion on the “refugee crisis” of 2015 or what you think about refugees drowning in the mediterranean sea.
You’re probably also in favour of male Ukranian refugees between 18 and 60 in losing their residence permit in Germany in 2028.
I don’t know enough about these situations to comment on them. In isolation, a non-zero amount of suffering and death is obviously worse than none. But the world isn’t an isolated bubble like that. When you consider everything in its totality, it’s no longer so obvious what the correct objective should be, and that’s with the assumption that we can even even devise a measurable score for any of these objectives. Do we care for a lower bound on everyone’s quality of life? Do we want to maximize some quality of life average or total? Do we want to maximize the duration of human existence? Who is this “everyone”? Everyone alive today? Everyone who will ever exist? Do we give the same weight to every person? Or should we use some discounted weighting so that present humans get higher priority than future humans? Or should we put a cap on how much of our collective resources we can allocate to any given individual?
What the fuck are you talking about?
Whatever tangent you’re on about: I can’t experience anything anymore if I’m dead. And I’m sure as shit doing anything in my power not to die “for my nation”.
I don’t know. You brought up all those other scenarios. I don’t know how they’re relevant either.
Anyway, why would it not be a good thing if others want to put their lives on the line so that you can live your life in peace, or flee successfully if it comes to that?
I reject the premise that this is what the military is doing.
I live in Germany and currently the German government is amping up militarisation which actively increases the risk of war with Russia which in turn endangers my life.
Do you believe that Germany disbanding their military and turning over control of the country to Putin endangers your life less? Does this extend to everyone in your community? Everyone inside the geographical borders of Germany?