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Episode 2.1 - Page 12

posted 30th Aug 2015, 7:21 AM

Episode 2.1 - Page 12
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30th Aug 2015, 7:21 AM

mars

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A moral dilemma. High risk, but a chance to save everyone vs low risk guarantee of safety of all?
Would you take the chance?

Man, I can't believe how far into this chapter I am already. Feels like forever since i've been thinking about it all / planning it out / etc.
Time flies.

Hope you enjoy! If you haven't already, remember to SUBSCRIBE :) :)

~Marshall

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30th Aug 2015, 8:06 AM

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So he follows orders & regrets it.

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30th Aug 2015, 8:28 AM

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If his risk assessment was a hair-breadth out, it could have meant a mega-disaster. Who's to say HQ doesn't know more than he does anyway?

We can't all be Superman. Hope he gets some sleep.

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30th Aug 2015, 1:50 PM

CCG

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If you're cynical, the value of the facility itself is also likely factored into the calculations of command.

Just like western powers rushed to defend Kuwait (oil) when Saddam Hussein invaded, and didn't lift a finger for a million dying in genocide in Rwanda (and plenty of other places since).

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31st Aug 2015, 7:30 AM

Hornet

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No one is ever going to go into
Africa with the intention of "bettering" the place. Why? well you think we spent a lot of time men and resources in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those expenses wouldn't come close to what someone would need to pacify and manage any part of Africa.

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31st Aug 2015, 8:51 PM

mars

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A lot of the time we do value things like oil, or a facility of importance, etc. Problem is that sometimes those facilities and so forth can save lives in the long term, as is probably the case with the mining facility in the comic - powering space colonies with material and power and such is obviously pretty important :P

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30th Aug 2015, 1:48 PM

CCG

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I think statistically most people do sacrifice the few to save the many, when it comes down to it. That equation only changes - unfairly but understandably - if one of the few is a person of emotional importance to them.

Never a simple moral problem though, raw numbers alone are arguably not the only way to quantify things.

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31st Aug 2015, 8:55 PM

mars

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Jay's the type to value people from the perspective of 'I may not know them... but somebody does, therefor they are of equal importance'
In this case though, it's the mere *chance* to save everyone vs the *guarantee* to save at least some that he's weighing. A shitty moral dilemma, to be sure :P

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1st Sep 2015, 7:42 PM

CCG

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At equal importance, it's a strictly numerical equation.

I think one could solve this one mathematically too if one had a reasonable idea of the risk of losing everyone vs guaranteeing the majority. Mathematically one course of action would preserve the greatest number on a statistical basis, presuming people hold equal value.

Jay doesn't seem the type to exactly act rashly however from what we've seen so far - there probably is a good chance he can save them all, extrapolating from his conduct generally.

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1st Sep 2015, 9:03 AM

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"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one."

Goddam Spock you green-blooded commie.
RIP

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1st Sep 2015, 9:54 AM

mars

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Perhaps because Communism is pretty much the best "logical" path. Though that whole pesky 'humanity' concept and our emotions and so on kind of get in the way... so it's hard to argue it's the logical path (or even a good one) for us, really.

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1st Sep 2015, 12:05 PM

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Socialism looks great on paper, in practice, Greed's a green eyed bitch...

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