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| Sep 19, 2015 at 17:25 | comment | added | Sam Reeve | worse circumstances is definitely vague, so a more clear version would be to reduce suffering. I have heard it commented that if a bear would suffer more by not eating the man than the man would from being eaten, then shouldn't the bear eat the man? But the problem with this assertion is that in reality after the bear has killed the man the bear will now suffer as well so that everyone suffers instead of just the bear, who is not actually suffering from not eating the man but actually from the desire to eat him. | |
| Sep 19, 2015 at 16:51 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | Isn't that a truism which depends on the definition of "worse circumstances" and "better outcome"? For example, is it worse to wage war than to let a foreign power invade your country? Better to wage civil war than to let your religion be insulted, or diluted by foreign ethnicities? There are many ways to try to justify war. | |
| Sep 19, 2015 at 16:30 | history | answered | Sam Reeve | CC BY-SA 3.0 |