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Originally Posted by Aramike

Let's say there are two mothers, both with five children. One mother loses one child. The other mother loses all five.

How can you justify stating that both instances are equally tragic?

No. In this case they are not equally bad because premise 2 does not stand in this case.

2. There is no one (dead or alive) for whom a larger massacre is more or less bad then a smaller one.

in this case there is someone for whom the events are more or less bad for; the mothers and surviving children.

Originally Posted by Skybird

Your premises and conclusions, as you call them, are too queer. You expect reason in reply to what shows a lack of reason.

If I lack reason, then use better reason to show me where I lack reason.