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   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   Jerry Buchanan wrote:   
   > On 11/21/2025 10:57 AM, jojo wrote:   
   >> Clave wrote:   
   >>> If a storm breaks off a tree limb, and the limb hits the   
   >>> corner of your roof and takes off some of the eave and gutter,   
   >>> that's bad. If the limb crashes entirely through your roof and   
   >>> lands in the living room, that's worse. Goodness and badness –   
   >>> as practical consequences, not morality — occur along a   
   >>> spectrum. If you get an estimate for an automotive repair of   
   >>> $500, and it only ends up costing you $400, that's good. If it   
   >>> only ends up costing you $200, that's better, i.e. "more good."   
   >>>   
   >>> Morality is not like that. If you steal one tool (rake,   
   >>> shovel) from the side of your neighbor's house, that's wrong.   
   >>> If you steal all the tools, that's wrong, and it is not "more   
   >>> wrong" than stealing only one. Stealing all of them is a worse   
   >>> *practical* outcome for the neighbor, but either action is   
   >>> just wrong.   
   >>   
   >> so you're saying mortality is independent of goodness or badness?   
   >   
   > I'm not saying anything about mortality, idiot.   
   >   
   > You attempted to equivocate on goodness/badness. I stopped you.   
      
   so it is dependent on goodness and badness?   
      
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