People already are being “randomly” killed by cancer, and will continue to be until we develop a cure. There’s no threatening left to do.
If I somehow had a choice between N random people dying of cancer every year or N people chosen deliberately by the government dying of cancer every year, and that was the only choice I had (that is, N is fixed), I would choose deliberate choice, with the expectation that we can pick victims who were about to die of other causes anyway and thus minimize the amount of life we destroy. But that reasoning doesn’t apply to a fixed number of people being tortured at any given moment.
If instead of dying of cancer you pick something more analogous, like living with multiple sclerosis, then yes my reasoning is similar: I reluctantly choose randomness over government-selected victims.
As for the logistics of battling Dementors, I’m not sure why that’s relevant: I’ve agreed to assume that there’s no known way to neutralize them, either for the reasons you lay out or for other reasons.
People already are being “randomly” killed by cancer, and will continue to be until we develop a cure. There’s no threatening left to do.
If I somehow had a choice between N random people dying of cancer every year or N people chosen deliberately by the government dying of cancer every year, and that was the only choice I had (that is, N is fixed), I would choose deliberate choice, with the expectation that we can pick victims who were about to die of other causes anyway and thus minimize the amount of life we destroy. But that reasoning doesn’t apply to a fixed number of people being tortured at any given moment.
If instead of dying of cancer you pick something more analogous, like living with multiple sclerosis, then yes my reasoning is similar: I reluctantly choose randomness over government-selected victims.
As for the logistics of battling Dementors, I’m not sure why that’s relevant: I’ve agreed to assume that there’s no known way to neutralize them, either for the reasons you lay out or for other reasons.