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Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?

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Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
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Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 12:54 am
I want my father dead. So, what is wrong with me making him dead for me? I am not making him dead for himself.
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RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 2:15 am
Because it's murder.
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RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 3:39 am
Because you still live in this world, not any of the other QM potential worlds.
And, in this world, murder is.... frowned upon.
I believe it is because people wish to remain alive for as long as naturally possible and not have some random other person to murder them.
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RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 5:36 am
It is wrong because in another universe you are the dad to your dad and your dad is your son, so you would be killing yourself.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 6:43 am
(July 28, 2022 at 12:54 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I want my father dead. So, what is wrong with me making him dead for me? I am not making him dead for himself.

It's that whole 'Galileo' thing, right?

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RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 7:27 am
(July 28, 2022 at 6:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(July 28, 2022 at 12:54 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I want my father dead. So, what is wrong with me making him dead for me? I am not making him dead for himself.

It's that whole 'Galileo' thing, right?

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Probably more like Oedipus.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 7:46 am
(July 28, 2022 at 7:27 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:
(July 28, 2022 at 6:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It's that whole 'Galileo' thing, right?

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Probably more like Oedipus.

No, Oedipus didn't kill his father intentionally.
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RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 9:05 am
With respect to the OP, it's like asking if there is a QM world where 2 + 2 = 5.
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RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 9:09 am
I'm not sure that saying you want someone dead, on an online forum, is a great choice for a thread.

Perhaps you should seek help, we can't provide whatever it is that you need.
  
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RE: Why is murder wrong if Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true?
July 28, 2022 at 9:19 am
I didn't take what was said literally, kind of like Spongebob telling Squidward, "Your father did not love you," to which he replied, "I want you to know Spongebob that my father loved me very much".
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