@sigismundninja @codinghorror tl;dr EA:
Let's sacrifice people now to save future people.
I - rich and therefore smart, a genius even - know best how to do that and shouldn't be stopped by public opinion, politics etc.
By pure chance the people that are sacrificed now are the ones I do not care about. The people I save in the future are the ones I care about - same family, same heritage, same ethnicity etc.
Update: I should never pay a wealth tax, that helps now, not the future I'm shaping
This may shock some folks, but it is OK to simultaneously say that Khomeini had it coming and is a piece of shit who deserved what he got, and to say that a US president shouldn’t be assassinating foreign leaders without authorization from Congress. We can do that. We can have complex discussions. It is possible.
Edit ** as many have pointed out, the guy I was posting about here is Khameini (perils of late night posting). Khomeini died of cardiovascular disease in 1989.