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Originally Posted by archpaladin
I would argue that there is another difference between the scenarios, and that being the principle of the matter involved... .. .. ...this argument is moot when considering the issue of the principles involved.
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Ok, good, true. How does one go about comparing the principles involved however? One can only do this in thier own case, for principles vary wildly depending on the person involved. If we wanted to reason about a general case, we would be forced to cut out this fluctuation alltogether, for these are difference between individual examples in addition to differences between the 2 scenarios (and these can't be separated).
This leaves us with the position I outlined above which is, I agree, largely moot in the context of the question, and only good for mental fodder. So perhaps it can say something about mankind in general (which obviously the original question cannot hope to do).
At any rate, I had fun coming up with it.