lukekh wrote:Please correct me if I'm wrong
lukekh wrote:but does this not imply that Batman saved two lives before his parents died?
lukekh wrote:I realise that Zach is probably counting killing Batman's parents as saving -2 lives but how are we to know that these horrible people
lukekh wrote:haven't killed any more than two people?
lukekh wrote:Maybe it should be B-K where K is the amount of people killed by the people that killed Batman's parents K<<B?
There doesn't seem to be sufficient information to deduce K, let alone count killing a person as the negative of saving them.
lukekh wrote:http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20120528.gif
Please correct me if I'm wrong but does this not imply that Batman saved two lives before his parents died (i.e. independently from his parents dying)?
I realise that Zach is probably counting killing Batman's parents as saving -2 lives but how are we to know that these horrible people haven't killed any more than two people?
Maybe it should be B-K where K is the amount of people killed by the people that killed Batman's parents K<<B?
There doesn't seem to be sufficient information to deduce K, let alone count killing a person as the negative of saving them.
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Duloth wrote:Ahh, but...
B(Number of people saved by batman) - J(Number of people Joker killed after batman prevented him from being killed by cops) -X(Number of people other villains have killed after batman saved them and/or spared them)
=
A substantially negative number, as the Joker actually literally killed everyone in existence at one point.
As a result, one can say that murdering Bruce Wayne's parents is an unambiguously unethical incident because batman has caused so much more death and suffering than he's prevented its ridiculous. In fact, killing Bruce Wayne as a child would be an amazingly good thing for gotham city and everyone in general.
ChaoticBrain wrote:lukekh wrote:Please correct me if I'm wrong
Oh, happily.lukekh wrote:but does this not imply that Batman saved two lives before his parents died?
If you think helplessly watching his parents die is mathematically equivalent to murdering them, then sure.lukekh wrote:I realise that Zach is probably counting killing Batman's parents as saving -2 lives but how are we to know that these horrible people
Person.lukekh wrote:haven't killed any more than two people?
The mugger murdered two people in front of Bruce.
That eventually led to the creation of Batman.
Anything the mugger did outside of the initial event is irrelevant.lukekh wrote:Maybe it should be B-K where K is the amount of people killed by the people that killed Batman's parents K<<B?
There doesn't seem to be sufficient information to deduce K, let alone count killing a person as the negative of saving them.
Stop overthinking. You're not very good at it.
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