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The Water Line's avatar

"Suppose if you kill one person now you’ll kill A, while if you wait, you’ll kill A,B,C,D, and E. In this case, A will be killed regardless, so it’s just a question of whether B,C,D, and E all get killed. There is literally no benefit to anyone from not killing A. Thus, this option is untenable."

Just to reiterate Dominik's point, your argument here is basically, "Deontologists don't do the thing that maximizes good consequences, therefore deontology is false."

This is... unlikely to rationally persuade a deontologist.

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Vikram V.'s avatar

> you don’t kill one person now, later in the year you’ll kill five people

In my view if Free Will is false then ethics is moot, and we should all kick back and relax:

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