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Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them?

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RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them?

November 4, 2010 at 10:02 pm (This post was last modified: November 4, 2010 at 10:25 pm by jason56.)

It's a basic human instinct to empathise on scale. And a natural human instinct far outweighs any philosophical question.

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Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 29, 2010 at 12:41 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Yahadreas - October 29, 2010 at 1:38 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - October 30, 2010 at 3:52 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by The Omnissiunt One - October 29, 2010 at 1:46 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - October 29, 2010 at 1:48 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 5:46 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - October 30, 2010 at 7:01 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 7:36 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Yahadreas - October 30, 2010 at 6:38 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 6:43 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 7:40 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 8:36 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - October 30, 2010 at 8:44 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 9:47 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 9:00 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 10:14 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 9:54 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 10:53 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 12:10 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - October 30, 2010 at 12:13 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 4:39 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Minimalist - October 30, 2010 at 5:20 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - October 30, 2010 at 5:44 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 31, 2010 at 5:45 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 31, 2010 at 10:19 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 1, 2010 at 5:42 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 2, 2010 at 5:25 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Shinylight - November 2, 2010 at 7:26 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 2, 2010 at 9:12 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 7:47 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - November 3, 2010 at 7:53 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Tiberius - November 3, 2010 at 7:56 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 12:02 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 3, 2010 at 3:54 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 4, 2010 at 6:17 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 4, 2010 at 6:49 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - November 2, 2010 at 7:23 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 7:12 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - November 3, 2010 at 7:18 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Tiberius - November 3, 2010 at 7:48 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - November 2, 2010 at 7:49 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - November 2, 2010 at 7:56 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 2, 2010 at 9:18 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - November 2, 2010 at 8:07 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 7:56 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - November 3, 2010 at 8:29 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 8:39 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by jason56 - November 4, 2010 at 10:02 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 5, 2010 at 12:51 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by jason56 - December 17, 2010 at 8:00 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - December 17, 2010 at 10:47 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by jason56 - December 24, 2010 at 10:11 pm

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