Doesn’t appreciably constrain your behavior, though, unless you happen to be the star of a popular Showtime series or something. Declaring a policy is only meaningful if it actually affects your choices, which in this case only makes sense if you expect to be considering mass murder as a solution to your problems.
And in a situation as extreme as that, I wouldn’t be surprised if some otherwise unthinkable subjective downsides came up.
Note that you’re arguing that your preferred policy can never have true drawbacks, rather than arguing that it’s worth it on balance. Be careful.
Policy of not mass murdering people is as close to drawback-free as it gets.
I’m sure you can figure out some trivial drawbacks if you want.
Doesn’t appreciably constrain your behavior, though, unless you happen to be the star of a popular Showtime series or something. Declaring a policy is only meaningful if it actually affects your choices, which in this case only makes sense if you expect to be considering mass murder as a solution to your problems.
And in a situation as extreme as that, I wouldn’t be surprised if some otherwise unthinkable subjective downsides came up.