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I think if Spock had said "I need the crew to survive, I need you to survive, more than I want to live myself" we would not be having this argument. It would also have been more true.

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Aye, although it would've lacked the drama of how it was delivered of course. But there's a real danger to this principle if it is taken rashly...

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Agreed. I feel like almost every genocide has been predicated on, at root, this argument.

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Indeed. Harry Potter riffs on this theme in the final book, which came as a welcome surprise to me when I was reading the series with my kids. And the 'Four Oxford Philosophers' resisted precisely this as I wrote about on Only a Game.

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