[partialrecall]

The response needn't be serialized. That is to say, multiple actions may be popped off the priority queue at once, without waiting for the others to finish.

See also: the reason we are talking about this at all when there are still hungry children in the world.

[seph-reed]

Hungry people are a growing and incredibly complex problem. Punishing even a single one of Epstein's clients seems much more manageable. And if we're going for impact-to-effort ratio queuing, this is likely a bit more of a gimme than world hunger.

[partialrecall]

The point is that society can address more than one problem (or more than one aspect of a problem) at once. The reasoning I responded to seemed to be following the tired cliche of dismissing any problem as not worthy of attention because children are still starving.

[seph-reed]

> The point is that society can address more than one problem

Can it? It often seems like nothing really ever get addressed fully, while there is a barrage of half baked debates.