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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 4721206" data-attributes="member: 957">I disagree with this assessment.I'm not gonna try to blanket defend the whole thread.  I haven't even read every single post in it.  But I've read a good bit.Saying that killing one innocent is an evil act period full stop does not state that this 1 innocent life is greater than countless others.  It simply states that taking the one innocent life is evil.  I believe that is pretty hard to refute.Frankly, I find the idea that we can turn a blind eye to vast evil so long as it helps us convince ourselves that we have stopped some minimal evil that is thrust into our face to be one of the horrid flaws with society today.  It is a very arrogant and narcissistic moral short cut.  The refusal to embrace and accept hard choices is itself an evil.What V did was evil.    End of discussion to me.But if someone had the choice to push that same button and commit that evil act, and choose not to, despite the vast amount of evil it would prevent, simply because it made them feel more comfortable with their own self, then that person is weak and selfish and harmful to society.It is not 1 innocent soul > countless innocent souls. It is 1 innocents soul + self delusion of own morality > countless innocent souls.The idea that all evil may be avoided is a bad starting point.  Making tough, correct choices that may not be fun but have the best overall expected result is as close to good as it comes.</blockquote>

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