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> If it is the same morality for everyone, then why bother categorizing people into how much power they have?

While (as you say) analytics tools such as the one under discussion aren't useful for assessing individuals, they are appropriate for assessing populations.

When you asserted that only individuals have agency here, that was refuted with the example of leaders, who do have to make difficult choices about populations, and rely on tools such as this to do so.

In no way was that about different moralities for different people. Just about who can use this tool in a useful way. If you read the thread you'll see it.




> While (as you say) analytics tools such as the one under discussion aren't useful for assessing individuals, they are appropriate for assessing populations.

Right, and I say this is a category error. Populations don't exist the same way you and I do. A population can't suffer, because it can't experience. The individuals making up the population can suffer and experience, but that's a different thing entirely. The collective entity only has objectivity.

If I step on a lego brick, and dance around on one foot in pain, so will my shadow and mirror image, but I'm the only one that felt the pain.

> When you asserted that only individuals have agency here, that was refuted with the example of leaders, who do have to make difficult choices about populations, and rely on tools such as this to do so.

I just don't understand how this is a refutation at all.

> In no way was that about different moralities for different people. Just about who can use this tool in a useful way. If you read the thread you'll see it.

Surely the outcome of actions can't determine whether they are good or not.

If a large man with an Austrian accent knocks on my door and asks if I know where Sarah Connor lives, and I helpfully tell him that she lives next door, and he goes and murders her, am I a villain because I unknowingly helped the killer?


> Populations don't exist the same way you and I do.

This is the premise upon which something could work for populations and not individuals, yes.


Would it have been better if you hadn't done so?




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