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If I understand the questions – once you decide that innocent children are allowed to be killed for “the greater good” all ethics go out the window. Do wtf you want.

No innocents should ever be killed for the greater good – that would be a contradiction. The innocents are the greater good.

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And you're on crack if you don't think that killing 8 kids is a lot worse than 5.

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Once you decide that one can be killed, then 5 and 8 become relatively meaningless. At that point we compare 1,5, or 8 to millions of people who we think we are saving. 1,5, or 8 are immaterial relative to millions or billions of “the greater good”. I don’t get your point, phil.