It could actually be the other way around—an exponential decay. You would be horrified by killing one person, but as the numbers grow, the killings get more impersonal and therefore easier. However, killing a billion people one at a time would still hurt as much as killing one person times a billion.
Actually, it’s probably more of a twisted, jumbled mess of a correlation that no one has the time, resources, or heart to untangle.
Actually, it’s probably more of a… hold on.
[EDIT: I had originally made a very detailed graph out of characters, but it didn’t format correctly when I posted, so...]
There! A skewed S-curve with a negative exponential progression!
However, killing a billion people one at a time would still hurt as much as killing one person times a billion.
Probably not, after the first ten you probably stop feeling anything. After the first twenty you start comparing their “performance” dying. By a hundred you’re probably coming up with creative means of execution.
It could actually be the other way around—an exponential decay. You would be horrified by killing one person, but as the numbers grow, the killings get more impersonal and therefore easier. However, killing a billion people one at a time would still hurt as much as killing one person times a billion.
Actually, it’s probably more of a twisted, jumbled mess of a correlation that no one has the time, resources, or heart to untangle.
Actually, it’s probably more of a… hold on.
[EDIT: I had originally made a very detailed graph out of characters, but it didn’t format correctly when I posted, so...]
There! A skewed S-curve with a negative exponential progression!
Probably not, after the first ten you probably stop feeling anything. After the first twenty you start comparing their “performance” dying. By a hundred you’re probably coming up with creative means of execution.
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic”—usually attributed to Stalin.