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by kipple 991 days ago
> the cold calculus here is the very nature of the banality of evil
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It is also pretty bad calculus. Monkeys have almost the same level of intelligence we have (and probably more in some departments) so killing even one monkey is a debt that cannot be equalised with even one saved human.
You're just running away from the issue though