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"I shot a guy in the head, but then a different guy moved into the house where he lived, so it wasn't that bad?"
That's great. That's great.
Yeah so it’s not as scary as people think
"I shot 1/4 million people in the head...."
But none of them were deputies!
Except there wasn't even a house left. There was a smoking patch of ground that a different guy moved to.
This is the classic argument against act utilitarianism. It's textbook ethics. Literally, every intro ethics textbook covers it.