Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2) Societies types: one for which a life is a life, another where life is some actuarial number. Watch the ravages economics has done to modern societies: comes with scientism, pseudoutilitarianism, pseudocost-benefit analysis & ... moral decay. As in Dostoyevski's Crocodile. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DrJMatthewRhett This is spurious. If someone kills someone else BY NEGLIGENCE, should the penalty be age dependent… https://t.co/magrGb09HX — PolitiTweet.org

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3)Do not disrupt the Silver rule: don't treat the older generation the way you don't want the next generation to treat you. Civilization and group moral rectitude started with the Silver and Golden rules. Geronticide is morally repulsive; only accepted in nouveau-riche societies. — PolitiTweet.org

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