Fuzzy-borders

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fuzzy-borders

Title text: What if all assassinations are by time travelers who keep trying to fix things, but keep breaking things somewhere else?

Votey

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Would it be ethical to go, back in time to kill baby hitler?

At the extremes, it's clearly okay to kill baby hitler and clearly not okay to kill, say, baby helen keller.

Hmm. It seems like it would but then you get a fuzzy border problem.

If you take all human beings who ever lived and order them by okay-to-murder-ness, is there a cutoff point for time-traveling murder? Can you kill the median baby? The average baby?

That's easy. You just scale the punishment to the position in the list. It's okay to murder baby hitler. The median baby deserves a spanking baby helen kellers get a piece of candy and a friendly pat on the head.

So. If time travel were possible. You'd expect that some times babies just start crying for no reason while you're out of the room.

But then that means

Time-traveling baby-spankers.

The most parsimonious

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Actually that job is probably automated in the future. Joba

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