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by _Algernon_ 1015 days ago
Is omniscience a prerequisite to reacting? Nothing would ever get done then.
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We're talking about killing people in a country on the other side of the world.

If not omniscience at least clear evidence that there is no other course of action and that this is absolutely required (spoiler, it wasn't). Reacting irrationally is just what animals do.