• andyburke
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    18 days ago

    This thought experiment is pretty easy:

    if you could alleviate a large amout of suffering and death for a sentient species at little to no cost to yourself, would you?

    If you can do that so trivially that it has no negative impact on you, and you do not do it, are you acting ethically?

    The answers will be yes and no for most people. To me that makes it clear that neither the Prime Directive nor any kind of all-powerful deity can be moral, at least not humanly moral.