Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-2804:431:B700:3599:D022:2FE7:358A:6D2-20180523202338/@comment-31763506-20180526020854

I had a nice post on reconciling deontology and utilitarianism (they're strategies used in different contexts), but Wikia ate it. And I don't have time to type it again. Damn it. It's probably for the best though...

Regardless, the preface was that the "amoral psychopath" comment wasn't criticizing the OPer for arguing in favor of whoring poor Qum. It was pointed at the AFU who said "speaking of moral choices i think im going to go back in time to assassinate kalant... (snip) tbqh fuck kalant, chosen peice of shit, im not going to focefully sell off my beloved daughter character, or willingly for that matter. (sic)"

Because that sounds pretty fucking evil and insane. And really stupid.

You'll also note that the "amoral psychopath" post had a link to an SMBC comic criticizing the trope of going back in time to kill Hitler. If you have a time machine, there are plenty of ways you could prevent WWII and the Holocaust without killing Hitler. (Vocational counseling and maybe some penicillin for Gavrilo Princip, or just unloading his pistol the night before the assassination jump to mind.) So it was also a criticism of using a time machine for murder in general, not just arbitrary and unnecessary murder.

I definitely did screw up because I wrote the post under the misconception that the OPer and the above mentioned AFUer were the same person. That was just sloppy and I do apologize for that.