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Old 10-01-2003, 10:40 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Four Fingers

Another way to rate an action is humanitarianism. It says, if your action hurts people then it's bad. If it promotes human welfare then it's good.

Some rating system can be shown to be bad and illogical. Here, I attempt to show that Humanitarianism is a bad system for rating actions.
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Humanitarianism by definition only defines a positive act. It does not rank all behaviors. Your example also predisposes counteractive information unreachable by the target group at the time of the determining event. You cannot judge a person's reaction to an event by what that event unexepectedly causes.
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