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To: spiral3 who wrote (71015)	6/6/2008 6:58:11 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 542653

in the next breath you don't follow how intention has anything to do with this I just don't see the added value of introducing it as a separate factor from ethics. You dropped it in out of nowhere and I don't know why. we have stuff in common. We don't like to hurt. We have different ideas on how to avoid hurting. For example, do you let your kid suffer short term (eat the jalapeno he picked up from the supermarket salad bar) to learn something that may save greater suffering down the line (consuming wood alcohol or heroin)? Do you tell him he can't sing or do you let him make a fool of himself on national TV? Do we spend X dollars to give everyone flu shots or on a few heart transplants? Or do we do both and add to the deficit? Or do both and not fix the air traffic control system? Or do neither and save Darfur? Life's a bitch and then you die. There aren't enough resources to avoid hurt. How is intention a key player in that? Are you suggesting it's not the amount of suffering that determines priority rank but the intention behind the suffering or the easing of suffering?

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