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Other Games / Re: Stratis Imperia: Because you want to manage a province in the Sahara
« on: December 14, 2011, 06:26:19 am »
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I think the reason that killing a child is viewed as worse than killing an adult is precisely because they have less experience than an adult, a child who has their life taken away like that has not had the chance to experience of what life has to offer yet while an adult has.
It can be equally argued that losing the experience of the adult is a much greater loss than that of a replaceable child. After all that experience is a fact, which is being put up against only the potential experience of the child.
Yes but what if that experience would have been greater than the adult that had been killed, we would never know because the child would have been killed so we doubt about whether the child would have been a greater loss in the long term than the adult.
Precisely, you are arguing potential against existing reality. Judging which is worse boils down to whether the group can afford to risk doing without the experience of the adult while the child grows.
I think the reason that killing a child is viewed as worse than killing an adult is precisely because they have less experience than an adult, a child who has their life taken away like that has not had the chance to experience of what life has to offer yet while an adult has.
It can be equally argued that losing the experience of the adult is a much greater loss than that of a replaceable child. After all that experience is a fact, which is being put up against only the potential experience of the child.
It probably would not be viewed as worse because even if the adult could never remember what they had experienced doesn't mean they never did and never had the chance too.I think the reason that killing a child is viewed as worse than killing an adult is precisely because they have less experience than an adult, a child who has their life taken away like that has not had the chance to experience of what life has to offer yet while an adult has.So killing a adult with total amnesia is worse then killing a 10 day old baby?