Yes, I think it will change the decision. You need a very large number of minuscule steps to go from specs to torture, and at each stage you need to decimate the number of people affected to justify inflicting the extra suffering on the few. It’s probably fair to assume the universe can’t support more than say 2^250 people, which doesn’t seem nearly enough.
Yes, I think it will change the decision. You need a very large number of minuscule steps to go from specs to torture, and at each stage you need to decimate the number of people affected to justify inflicting the extra suffering on the few. It’s probably fair to assume the universe can’t support more than say 2^250 people, which doesn’t seem nearly enough.
You can increase the severity of the specking accordingly, though. Call it PINPRICKS, maybe?