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gress on Aug 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hal Finney being cryopreserved now

If duty were enough, we wouldn't have wars or poverty, 'out of duty to our fellow human beings'. Why are people who are already dead more deserving of such 'duty'?

lsparrish on Aug 29, 2014 [–]

Um. You also stop poverty and wars. That is also your duty.

gress on Aug 29, 2014 | [–]

Um, so obviously duty doesn't stop poverty or wars.

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